A prostitute saw that eye once, in a rented room on the outskirts of an Arizona town.<\/p>\n
Man, mule and body.
\nCross the sands.
\n5 cactus to 500 miles of grain.<\/p>\n
His foreheads sops his hat, drips to his chin, down his shirt.<\/p>\n
The haze stings his cheeks a touch. The mule slows.<\/p>\n
He has to cross one thousand miles of this to go where she said to go.<\/p>\n
He wants to leave it on the sand. Soon the wind will blow, erase the eye, the skin. None will be ever found.<\/p>\n
But his gut feels heavy just to lay his parcel down.<\/p>\n
So through the crushed shell and dirt he drives the beast on. Once he knows its story then the stabbing burn will be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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