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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