R.G. Cantalupo
Want
Baby San wanted horses
mostly, Mustangs and
Appaloosas, a small ranch
outside Tucson with a good
woman and a few sons,
Devil wanted his girlfriend
to take this morning’s letter
back, for it to be the way it was
that last night when she called
out his name--”Lonnie”--Lonnie,
the name he had before he left
The World, I wanted to finish
school and write about our days
here, this day and the ones before,
us simmering Spaghetti C’s
over heat tabs and drinking
our six free beers in the bunker’s
dusty shade, the crackle of
green bullets igniting the air
outside--far away now as we sat
and drank and lied and killed
the day, each of us wanting
what we knew we couldn’t have,
till it was time to go and one
by one we stood up and stepped
thru the blinding doorway,
and disappeared into the light.
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