Dishman

everything promised disappeared into anger your blondblue exquisite smallness :: red flag wail loud enough to become myth :: old women still talk of how at two you fumed smoldered flew outside the bars and blackouts :: to knock breath from the tender :: she :: who promised she the saggy wet bottom mechanism her machine brain even then deviated :: by your boy fist :: kicked over the entire fat world’s fleshy flap without regard :: strangled by the wool cap in summer’s heat :: promised nothing :: promised Jesus :: and ladybugs at the water’s edge drowned in cheat grass :: drowned in mud :: under the horse hoof the  cement belt :: the staggering staggering gold wheat