Tuesday, August 3, 2021

are you sure hank done it this way? By Keith Pearson


another cold back seat. shaking under old wool blankets. bad country roads. no seat belts then. hockey game on the radio. remembering a song he heard one time. blessed sleep. dreaming. the pain that comes with never waking up. maybe sometime after midnight. the way he did.





Keith Pearson
I live in southern New Hampshire and works with special ed students at a local high school.

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