“It was like
Las Vegas
back there
on The Flats
across the tracks
you could get anything
you wanted
and more
she ran some girls and was a
big bootlegger back in the ‘50’s
when Lubbock, Texas was still dry
who shot
the bird
one
too many times
at the wrong
person
and got
her
arm chopped off
for that
finger
never would tell
who axed it.”
Author Bio:
Sheryl L. Nelms is from Marysville, Kansas and graduated from South Dakota State University. She has had over 5,000 articles, stories and poems published, including fourteen individual collections of her poems. She is the fiction/nonfiction editor of The Pen Woman Magazine, the National League of American Pen Women publication, a contributing editor for Time Of Singing, A Magazine Of Christian Poetry and a three time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Las Vegas
back there
on The Flats
across the tracks
you could get anything
you wanted
and more
she ran some girls and was a
big bootlegger back in the ‘50’s
when Lubbock, Texas was still dry
who shot
the bird
one
too many times
at the wrong
person
and got
her
arm chopped off
for that
finger
never would tell
who axed it.”
Author Bio:
Sheryl L. Nelms is from Marysville, Kansas and graduated from South Dakota State University. She has had over 5,000 articles, stories and poems published, including fourteen individual collections of her poems. She is the fiction/nonfiction editor of The Pen Woman Magazine, the National League of American Pen Women publication, a contributing editor for Time Of Singing, A Magazine Of Christian Poetry and a three time Pushcart Prize nominee.
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