FAT TONY’S THOMPSON
They
were up
playin’ spades
in room 268…
at the
Madison Hotel
in Memphis…
N’ as
Red Lane
sang..
“Blackjack
County
Chain”…
A strange
knock came…
Causin’
their luck
to change…
Just
seconds before…
they opened
the door…
and
Fat Tony
went to work
with his
Thompson
BONNIE’S HABIT
Bonnie
likes to
day drink
down at Joe’s…
and shoot
her big
mouth off
about
Cindy’s
clothes…
Tammy’s
tattoos…
n’ Brenda’s
new boyfriend…
It’s really
kinda sad
to hear
her say
such shitty
things
about her
so called
friends…
And
Buckshot says
he thinks
Bonnie is
near the end…
n’ jealous
of all the
neighborhood girls
that done
made good…
without
havin’ to
work the streets
six nights
a week
just to
feed
the
habit
HUNTED MEN
Most
hunted
men
have
way
too
many
choices
to
make…
Just
one
microscopic
mistake
is
all
it
will
take…
to
relieve
them
of
life
on
the
run
FRIGHTENED MAN
Beware
of
the
frightened
man…
he
has
little
left
to
lose…
Strolling
along
the
dim
lit
streets
of
Eldorado…
chain
smoking
Dunhill
cigarettes…
while
waiting
for
the
sky
to
fall
14TH STREET STEVE
The day
they came
to collect…
14th Street
Steve
was just
sittin’
in his
Morris
Chair
sippin’
on a
mix of
Beefeater Gin
and
holy water…
He knew
the end
was near
and
wanted
to appear
calm
cool
and
collected…
while
staring
them
straight
in
the
eyes
Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of seven poetry collections: Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows; Howler Holler; Bootlegger’s Bluff. Tales of a Receding Hairline was a semifinalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards – Best in Poetry 2016. Peery is a regular contributor in Veterans Voices Magazine. His work is included in the Vincent Van Gogh Anthology Resurrection of a Sunflower and the Walsall Poetry Society Anthology, Diverse Verse II & III. In 2018, Peery is scheduled to have poems published in The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Big Hammer, San Pedro River Review, The Gasconade Review, Blink Ink, Rusty Truck, Mad Swirl, Mojave River Review, The Asylum Floor, Horror Sleaze Trash, Ramingo’s Porch, From Whispers to Roars, The Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleachers and Apache Poetry. Credited as a lyricist and producer, Peery’s work appears on more than a dozen studio albums over the past decade.
comic book tales…
Good job Kevin.
Good work !
Like really short noir movies in poem form.