Zekiel Brown


          Grandpa said:

          That's when Zekiel Brown got his, one night
          In Juarez, Mexico, when the stars looked
          Like the lights of some big-assed Mexico
          Christmas tree. Them fat-bellied bastards in
          Their Sam Browne belts chased him until they got
          Out-of-breath, & then they opened up their
          Creaking leather holsters and blew his guts
          All over the dirty god-damn sidewalk.

          He hollered out this woman's name and fell
          Across the feet of a little Mex boy
          Who wore a red Saint Louis baseball cap
          & stood there pissin' his pants while
          Zekiel Brown's hot guts fell around him like
          The rain. The thing that got me was just this:
          I knowed Zekiel Brown for a long damn time,
          & he never mentioned that woman once.



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