Dead at the Races

(Tuesday 13th March 2007, 8am. Hubbel Trading Post.)


Have at it Hooves hammer bare ground
Money-wavers watching seem drawn by the sound
And on Kicked-to-death trainer in the stalls, gather 'round
Swarms of blackflies racing, for open eye sockets
whilst a man stands to one side
and shoots the ones too old to make it

with a tiny gun,
no longer than
tip to first knuckle
of my little finger.

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