THE LADY WITH SIX FINGERS

THE LADY WITH SIX FINGERS

Old, black, and sweet as lasses
little house on the side of a hill
in the red dirt of East Texas

Someone in the kitchen was Dinah
best pies and anything that fries

Special in a million ways
but that extra finger on each hand
she sure was proud of that

Don’t think she’d have traded Liz
for five carats on her third