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  cowboy Lazarus
   
 

i have seen his black mare,
a trailer hitch,
and my mother crush him to death

i have seen him die
in the wreck of a car
and his marriage

i have seen him poisoned
to death by cigarettes,
regret and my grandparents

 
   
  Lonnie Anderson
   
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