Monday, December 06, 2010

When Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow Woke in Bienville Parish, May 23, 1934


Bonnie said:
We forswear salted horse
and the hard take
and the random thrill
kill. Our nature is raw.
We hate all law, 
stool pigeons,
spotters and rats. 

Clyde said
My lover, ignore the riotous 
affairs of this raffish, 
faith-based sunrise.
Such a dawn has only one 
remedy for all that ails us--
a thread-precious death. 

Bonnie said:
We forswear the first
and final word we heard
about the kidnap demand,
the Kansas City Depot job,
and clinically proven 
hair-loss solutions. 

Clyde said
Say goodbye, my darling, 
to the bald apostle 
who pawned his soul
for a pair of soiled wings. 

Bonnie said:
We forswear songs we forgot
we wrote in my mother's bible.

We forswear bus-station farewells
and a journey that takes us down
a gunpowder road
where day waits in the cane brake. 

Clyde said
Abandon, my heart,
the art of letting go.

Let's ride our horses
toward all the towns
we plan to name our children.

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