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Butch and Etta

*On horseback, they chase you,

But you are light and you are gaining distance. On horseback, they chase you, and you laugh along with the hoof beats.

Your smile catches sun, and you have never been scared of bullets.*

 

I wanted to remember your smell

Even after we stopped having

Anything to talk about

 

I wanted to remember how your

Skin shivered, warm and desperate

Even deep into my dreams

 

There was a day when you rode on my

Handlebars and we moved like

Water through canyons

 

There was a day when we traced

Each other's shadows as big as

Gallows in the dust

 

I keep having this dream of the spring of 1887: I go out to bring the cattle in, but they are all dead. Frozen to death. And floating down thawing rivers. I keep having this dream of Bolivia: we are cornered after robbing a payroll and I am glad you are not with us.

 

The last thing I remember is your smile catching sun

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holly-salvatore
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Aug 1, 2014
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