7-13-11

Have you ever felt

like a wizard

whose cloak

is always

in the wash?

7-12-11

"THEY SHOOT THE WHITE GIRL FIRST."

Mama always said this

and seemed to know

because her best friend had been shot

when they were just girls.

Mama had been with her

when it happened

at a miniature golf course

in a sequence

that jumps like a dream

and ends with Mama holding Sue Ellen,

propped up against a wind mill

with Sue Ellen bleeding out

in her date-night blouse.

They had both been white.

They had both been girls.

But I never have corrected

Mama's saying.