i helped carry frankie
			mifflin's body out
			of harry's bar right
			after he drank a
			shot of yukon jack
			& slid to the floor
			everyone thought
			he was pulling the
			old falling off the
			barstool trick til
			elaine dorsey
			dropped a lit
			cigaret on his
			face & he didn't
			move when we
			got him outside
			harry took his
			stetson in ex
			change for the
			tab frankie'd
			run up because
			of the silver
			hat band then
			sd free drinks
			tonight if you
			sit w/the stiff
			til the meat
			wagon comes

                               
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Todd Moore is  author of the long poem Dillinger.  He has had 70 plus 
books & chapbooks published. Working On My Duende, a 64 page  poem about                         
Lorca, New Mexico, the duende, and death, is due out from Kings Estate                  
Press this fall.