~The Hundred Bites~
~II~
~Uncle Max was a quiet man~a family man~
~came to visit me when I was a hog farmer in Wyoming~
~spoke with him about my daughter~
~going to college in Colorado~
~word had it a Jewish boy she was dating~
~liked to smack her around~
~they’re coming to visit in a couple of weeks~
~don’t know if I can behave myself~
~I confessed to Uncle Max~
~those pigs’ll eat a man~he told me~
~say his legs are broken~they’ll kill him & eat him~
~Uncle Max scratched his chin~
~you have to crush the skull though~
~pigs can’t get their jaws around it~
~II. Uncles & Ants~
~this city rises up~
~his wife~
~is asleep in the trunk~
~too many reasons to leave her~
~it swallows people whole~
~generations are lost~
~dinosaurs tripping on ants~
~where do the little people go~
~sometimes you just wanna run away~
~to live in the hills~
~make a pile of dirt~
~& crawl on inside~
~we can pretend we is white folks~
~we got a history of uncles~
~sisters hanging from trees~
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