Two Poems by K.W. Peery

TUFFY’S 12 GAUGE

On
his
red
satin
deathbed
‘Tuffy’
told
me
how
they
ambushed
the
Spero
brothers
at
the
Virginian
Tavern
in
May
of
78 –

And
how
his
sawed-
off
12
gauge
had
jammed
just
moments
before
givin’
Carl
the
coup
de
grace
he
so
desperately
deserved

____________

END OF THE SKIM

 

On
Christmas
Eve
in
83
my
Uncle
Louie
mentioned
a
meeting
with
Cork
Civella
at
the
Mittieville
Peckerwood
Club –

It
was
the
beginning
of
the
end
of
their
sweet
ass
skim
out
in
Vegas –

And
in
the
year
of
the
rat
that
followed…

ole
Cork
would
catch
a
hard
twenty –

N’
die
of
pneumonia
while
still
in
prison
almost
a
decade
later

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