Poem: Boy About 10

Boy about ten
Tattered Lee's overalls and brown shoes turned up with the toes
Winchester pump action .22 scarred by chaparral
Stinking dead horse alive with flys
Rusting hulk of '35 Roadster
Running in circles, firing
Breathless
Running more
Down the slopes to the meadow
Absolutely exhausted, delirious
Ass hits hard ground
Gets cut crossing the barbed wire fence
Chased by the corpse of the shooting gallery
Circled some more
Merry-go-round
The painting
A child with the lion in the sylvan field
Fat boosters throwing rocks at the rattlesnake
Dervish stance
Xylophones rattle as the snake whirls, then slows to stupid circling