“Cuidado, amigo”
Justin McMahon
“I’ve got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle.”
Johnny Mercer
I have found
The very ground,
The rocks and sand,
Where under my hand
Entrusted by my family,
I shall end the strife that proved her life
And lay her down at the base of the cross,
Where she’s kept a life’s count of the loss,
And placed each carefully
In her desert dry of
memories.
From the Basque
Loading the coffin onto the truck
Through the deep South, end run around the Appalachians
Night in Natchez
Adventures in Alpine
Crossover into Chihuahua
North to El Paso
Bisbee, Bumbling with Cochise
Mexicali
Los Angeles
Route 1, Big Sur
Traverse de Los Diablos
Bakersfield
Passage through the San Joacquin
Hillock South of El Paso de Tehachapi
Burial as Night Fails to Morning
Destruction of the Truck
Fué una noche tempestada y sin luminosa . . .
‘Twere a dark and thorny twilight . . .
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