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Landscape of sagebrush and sand
feelings Jack never knew he had
until the accident.

His mother died when he was young
women never loved him back
not a goddam one.

A skinny man and a worker too
born in El Paso 
Cheyenne a year, then quit school.

He’d get drunk damn his first wife
curse her to deepest hell
she had a devil’s tail.

His second wife refused to cook
he was her Happy Meal
she ate his heart every day for lunch.

He swore there were others worse
but no Wyoming church 
would marry them.

The winds of feeling twisted him
and blowed him down
goddam he cursed them all.

Such a skinny man and a dancer too
before the accident.