Sonnets—Realities XVI

it started when Bill’s chip let on to
the bulls he’d bumped a bloke back in fifteen.
Then she came toward him on her knees across the locked
room.   he knocked her cold and beat it for Chicago.

Eddie was waiting for him,and they cleaned up a few
times—before she got the info
from a broad that knew Eddie to Topeka,went clean
daffy,and which was very silly hocked

the diamond he gave her.   Bill was put wise
that she coming with his kid inside her.
He laughed.   She came.   he gave her a shove
and asked Eddie did he care to ride her?
....she exactly lay, looking hunks of love

in The Chair he kept talking about eyes