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Lately (Free verse) by lastobelus
Lately I keep turning on my tv late at night
in the middle of old technicolor
spaghetti westerns.
Right at that part
where
the old cowboy and the young cowboy
are alone on a hill somewhere
behind the purple mountains
& the old cowboy does that thing
with a handful of dust
slowly, in the wind
and neither of them are saying anything &
I always turn off the tv before they speak,
their
fat guns low on their hips
blink out in a flash of light &
I stare at the little dot in the centre until it?s gone
& then
I usually make myself a sandwich
or heat up a bowl of soup
or,
lately,
just take the edge off
with a handful of crackers
before I head into bed.
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