Sister Baby Gets a Saver or Two

Being a Verse of a Larger Story

some gum
shoe soul
‘ll attach hisself
to her bare
foot
but will have
to get through
the preach
first
his brim
stone will
bent on serve
and pro-tect
like trigger
bent on the
right finger
and sister baby
don’t know
which is whom
or why
her pappy’ll let
them happen
to her
when he comes
home comes
home from where
he’s been
everywhere but here
near her
serving and pro
tectin her
from junior seed
and his
simulacrum
of family love
gumshoe souls
‘ll say
we will hunt
down the cunt
whom’s done this
grand harm
whilst preach
has dribbled
holy silver drops
of anti-demon
tonic
all round sister
baby’s ears
she swings
in the tire
tree swings and
sings
I’ve got a bonnet
pretty and green
pretties’ bonnet
you’ll never
see

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