We’ve got Bitter in our Mouths
Never Trust a Woman with a Broke heart
Swear to God that’us the first thought came Cross his head
his ambient hand skirting the desert Floor for a Revolver
Having it Holstered his next instinct to Hoist himself up answered by a
Sharp Jetsam of pain in his hip
He’d been shot for Hours, the blood stifled by the dirt and style of the wound was nevertheless profuse
Now stood up he took three mostly turned steps and surveyed his surroundings,
same as they were he still felt a certain discomfort with their disarray
the now mostly dead Horrendous Eight strewn about
Terriffic Confessions each, the Secrets of their deaths
hidden guns and skinning knives Sucker-punched all about them
he stole the lighter of now dead Number-Six and illuminated a cigarette
in order he Might chance by some reason for his mood
the impressive pain near his holster quickly extinguished by the two
and some mile walk he’d have to make back to town
the Turkey Vultures eyeing his wound where certain enough to follow him home,
a Company and Prosession
He was Doomed, probably the chances were slim as the shadows in that High Impossible Sun
counting the dead for what they were and promising on his mothers dead Body to bury them
he proposed some water to his lips, which they quickly rejected in hurtful spits
the now dust ridden hacked up remembering how destitute it really was
but sure-as-hurt his color slowly returned
the sweat cursing the talcum collected to his face into a sort of mud-like Acumen,
the hardened features of his face took that first step steadily homeward
scooping up his Remington and Colt from the stone glass of his now dead compatriots
he had to make this right
toying with a few men’s hearts, now that’ll get a gal killed and she had to learn that,
for that she had to die, and he, he had to live
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