Collapsed Lexicon | Page 109

  109   Six  Headed  Dog     They  stayed  together  way  too  long   like  a  rusty  worn  out  El  Camino,   they  should’ve  read  the  writing  on   the  wall  and  said  it  was  all  over     When  she  broke  the  strings  and  neck   on  Quick’s  blue  guitar  and  fed  him  dog   food  meatloaf,  that  was  the  final  straw     Quick  got  on  a  boat  sailing  for  Cuba,     where  the  mojitos  were  strong  and  cold     and  the  tobacco  sweet,  and  the  women     were  vanilla  and  fantastically  beautiful.       By  Catfish  McDaris