Graybeard

from Happenstance by Corduroy Boy

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Graybeard

Graybeard, do you have a light?
Don't bother me otherwise.
I don't have the strength for conversation.
That's a promise.
I'm stuck in a mid Floridian station
asking for a little time.
You see old-timer do you have it?
Or maybe a dime?
I got to call my grandmother.
I want to tell her that I have loved her.

And it began when I met Sanchez
in the Boys Correctional Institute of Niagara.
We were scapegoaters with the aim to please
until the furlow in the autumn of '73.
You see Sanchez, he could pick a lock, I could talk the talk.
And we decided right then, we'd leave it all behind.
Old-timer do you have a dime?

Travel light boys and admit nothing.

Her last words were, "you deserve better."
That's the night Sanchez and I left for Tucson.
He claimed the bank was there ripe for the picking.
He picked up a short stub.
But I said I want to be the driver this time.
In a lighting night incased in silence.
"The next day we'll be fat cats."

Graybeard, it was hot
and the people innocent around us lay on the floor.
And you know Sanchez was calm until he screamed out, "open the drawer!"
In the spark of an instant he came running and yelling, "start the engine!"
I looked up at Jesus at that time.
I just stared through and then a shot woke me up.
While Sanchez, on the floor...
I took off.
"You deserve better sweetheart."
I heard from her as I drove off into the dark.

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from Happenstance, released April 14, 2016

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