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ass cheek with turquoise ring-weight­
ed hand, reminding me that "he's"
(weeping tattoo Saviour) "got my ass
covered!" then haw-hawing at own
quasi double-entente & extending
inVitation #332 to me to drink
Mickey's tallboys by our apartment
building's kidney-shaped pool, said
pool overflowing with water the color
of that which passes thru same organ,
but I digress; daddy, or so he claims,
could've gotten info on my where-
Kathy Acker- dig her stuff too and here is
a little something I've been keeping for
you son which explains just how twas
you came to be
abouts any number of places/sources, gouged it out
though when he mentions
You were born in Washington D.C. to an
Army Corporal mother named Sally Des
Bladdes
he gets my attention, as that is my
surname and mommy of mine was in
fact a soldier once upon a time. My
back stiffens as though I've just been
informed that some black widow
spider crawled upon same, then
daddy, if he is indeed who he claims,
pokes at cover of book I pretend to
read and offers
and he hands me this gnarled
blackened THING, which I take after
contemplating three or so beats, to be
a bullet, tho kinda looking now like a
stubbed-out cigarette butt that's been
bronzed and left to tarnish
Daddy points to bullet with Uncle
Sam war poster finger
with m'Swiss Army pocketknife from this
bus stop bench in Austin Texas three days
after same little sonofabit-chin' bullet
come within a cunt hair of givin' me an
impromptu pan-cree-ass removal an' ol'
Charlie Whitman he's the reason this
bullet is the reason you are here as I dove
like Johnny Weismuller for shelter behind
said bench and Jell a-toppa this pretty
young filly wearin' an Army suit- in the
Navy once m'self- and we clung to each
other two survivors Lucky as the so-
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