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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