04-29-2022, 12:40 PM
The dead man’s hand held by Hickok:
two black eights
two black aces
and a Queen of Hearts in the hole
stained by a drop of blood.
So says a fabulist
of the Nineteen Twenties.
Only Jack McCall knew for sure;
he saw Bill’s cards as he stood behind him,
gun in hand,
but they hung him,
age 24, in Yankton, the next year.
two black eights
two black aces
and a Queen of Hearts in the hole
stained by a drop of blood.
So says a fabulist
of the Nineteen Twenties.
Only Jack McCall knew for sure;
he saw Bill’s cards as he stood behind him,
gun in hand,
but they hung him,
age 24, in Yankton, the next year.