Farmers and Merchants Bank
But that two-handed engine
at the door “Everybody get down!”
four men in overalls robbery
with a gun Mr. Long and I
crossing the bridge at Chester
engine at the door Elbert
Ikemire and Molly Clifton on the
floor James Cogwell opens the
safe just chump change
Robert Bunnell enters but that
two-handed engine at the door
shotgun in his side “If
I were you, I’d—” he drops
his money bag down
to the water
down to the water
down to the water down
to Martin Stephan’s Red Bud
grave and the Valley of Lost
Lutherans Mr. Long and I a tip?
Sheriff Speaks and that deputy
in hot pursuit west on the
Vandalia Road what was in
the ditches? if we had a radio
we could get that music from the
Aragon Ballroom but instead
that two-handed engine in the
ditches beebalm and milkweed and
rattlesnake plantains at the door
trespassed west of Altenburg Mr. Long
undrawered letters behind the
general store’s counter: Your father
& I don’t seem to understand you
anymore down the ravine (a few
shots were fired) that
two-handed engine at the door
one Louis Bangas of Chicago
hiding in some bushes Why
have you done this? Why this
need to get to Sacramento? Isn’t
Frohna good enough for you? What
two-handed? one man recognized by
several Clay County residents as
Glenn Montgomery sent to the
state prison at Chester every goddamned
May 17th in the hole