Issue #110

He left Chicago
To roughneck it off the coast
Of New Orleans to

Mend a broken heart.
Zapata Oil and its tool
Pushers, hammerheads

And boxing matches.
The vivid sketches of myth
Become real when I

Unearth the crisp blue
Uniform and leather strapped
Helmet - artifacts

From the depths of a
Cedar chest. Alone in his
Apartment, I feel

Such proximity.
Story meets history meets
The present moment.

If heaven is to
Be memory to others -
He is immortal.

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