Cousin Wayne

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Regret / August 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Wayne was thirteen
he had the finest blondest hair
and the finest features and the finest mind of all the cousins round
A city boy and cooler about everything than all of us until we took him hunting
When his first shot hit the rabbit
he ran and cried and held it till it died
At eighteen he quit school with A grades to get a jump on a job
met a girl and bragged of achievement on first date
Over achievement it turned out to be
quick marriage, quick, two children, three
Army for security, liquor for the pain
it was twenty years before I saw him again.
He was in a downstairs bar
sitting there as coarse and thick as adobe brick
I wanted to roll it all back
reach in for the lost fineness and yank it all inside out
And hold him like the rabbit when he cried
still innocent when it died

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