Havana Sedan

 

She said her name was Gonzales.

That her brother was in the penitentiary

for a crime he did not commit.

After seven years

they found him

hung.

 

Left a wife

a pair of twins

& a pretty brownskinned sister

 

gunning her burgundy Lincoln

from Topeka

to the

 

Colorado line

 

 

19 June 1985

 

 

[Published in Prairie Falcon.

© 1989 by Jim Cohn.] 

 

 

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Prairie Falcon
(North Atlantic Books, 1989)