04-06-2021, 07:31 AM
I saw him in the highway weeds
made a u-turn
got out of the truck and sat in the weeds
until I could coax him to me.
He was almost hairless with mange,
skin and bones, a puppy.
I laid him in the passenger seat,
And got back in the truck
looked down to see I’d been sitting in a fire-ant bed,
hundreds swarmed my groin,
but some Fairy of Charity had kept them from alarm
so I leapt out and began to bush them off
into oncoming traffic.
The Fairy of Stupid warded off the semis and SUVs,
I was back in the truck,
And he’s been with me ever since,
Even To South Dakota to see the Black Hills,
Colorado to buy weed,
to underworlds looking for my son’s ghost,
and he sleeps with me every night.
So I guess I’m saying,
I don’t need fairies anymore.
I got Buster.
made a u-turn
got out of the truck and sat in the weeds
until I could coax him to me.
He was almost hairless with mange,
skin and bones, a puppy.
I laid him in the passenger seat,
And got back in the truck
looked down to see I’d been sitting in a fire-ant bed,
hundreds swarmed my groin,
but some Fairy of Charity had kept them from alarm
so I leapt out and began to bush them off
into oncoming traffic.
The Fairy of Stupid warded off the semis and SUVs,
I was back in the truck,
And he’s been with me ever since,
Even To South Dakota to see the Black Hills,
Colorado to buy weed,
to underworlds looking for my son’s ghost,
and he sleeps with me every night.
So I guess I’m saying,
I don’t need fairies anymore.
I got Buster.