Lighter Fluid
I step outside
Putting grass-mowing shoes on
The requisite beer alongside
…
Lighting another Marlboro
Jaybird, what do you want to do today?
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He angled and I shivered greenly in the truck
He’ll catch old-holy-Hell from mom
But I asked for it–
I wanted to be big like him
A lighter in exchange for 35 years in a sooty hole
I yank the pull-cord and the machine roars