1 suicide

2 in a
3 wino hotel


4 turn him on his
5 back


6 find the front
7 of him


8 chest
9 arms


10 sailing ships
11 snakes
12 girls


13 and even such
14 words as
15 love
16 Annie, words such as
17 Mother


18 and the secret tattoo
19 on the neck
20 that only jailbirds
21 know


22 he’s picked cotton
23 rode the freights
24 worked the track gangs
25 maybe killed somebody


26 suicide in a
27 wino hotel:
28 now he’s killed
29 somebody


30 turn him on his
31 back


32 find the front
33 of him


34 tears of the mountains
35 prints of the lonely fox


36 God’s mark
37 like a swastika