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Dorothy's a jackrabbit killing chickadee

I hit a Jack Rabbit going sixty or seventy five,

I turned off the radio,

I was on the road for 18 hours already,

thats when shadows come alive,

I never hit anything before,

never killed anything that big.

 

When I was 14, I lived in Kansas, Kansas city granted,

but Kansas all the same.

We would go to my friends farm,

he owned enough guns for a small militia,

mostly shotguns.

There were 3 of us, with three scatter killing booms.

We would rake the fields to flush anything out,

crickets,

grasshoppers,

we hoped for ducks or quail

(I only pretended too, I wasn't sure then if my ***** really dropped)

and we would shoot,

Sometimes for the noise,

other times for the show.

I never killed anything.

On the way back home I saw a little chickadee perched high in a tree,

I shot,

and he fell.

"Nice one man!"

I ran over, hiding my tears, and buried him.

I got out of there as soon as I could, Kansas that is,

I was stuck at the farm.

 

Eight years later and I'm still not sure about my *****

This time I didn't bury him.

I like to think it was male,

for some reason that lessens the pain.

I don't know if I crushed the life out of him quickly,

I imagine it was slow,

toturing myself with every detail as my retribution.

 

Made a nice thump though.

I could feel his delicate body even through the tire the shocks and the rest of the parts between me and his ****** corpse.

 

Softer than a speed bump.

Why did Dorothy ever go home.

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