Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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.

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