CALL IT
-        after No Country for Old Men

Chance put you
in front of this poem.

Minted 20 years ago.
It took that many years

for it to get here. Shuffled
purposely towards you

in stocking feet. hijacked
rides from corpse driver

to corpse driver. Traversed
bloody motels,

bloody highways, greed.
A transponder ached

like a vulture's
hunger eyeing

fresh carrion. Found
you like

a lucky quarter or its
bullet-ridden

underbelly viewed
from hell below.


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