The Godz of Earth

The doc wanted to cut it off but I wuznt havin any of that. "Just give me somethin fer the pain and I'll worry about the leg."

Big mistake. When the pain finally left, I still craved the drugz. I wuz sleepin one off in an opium den when it got raided. That night, I got my first look at prizon.

Before the oldtimer could speak up I jumped in, "Ya got me, pard. I wuz a damn-fool gettin started on them drugz. I figger I done my time, though."

"You killed a man for drug money."

"That I did, guess a stretch in prizon don’t make up fer it."

He motioned and the lightz went out. The darkness was complete.

I come bustin out of the water with my arms flailin. He wuz on me before I could shake the water out of my eyez. I let my legz kick out from under me and managed to hit his kneecap. He lost his footin and I wuz on him. I wrestled his blade from him and pinned it to his throat. I growled out, "Shoulda went fer dead, pard." I wuz about to sink the blade, but I pauzed. I remembered the dreamz then I knocked him out.

Done me some wanderin... lost track of how long. Funny thing, never had a dream the whole time. Didn’t matter, I had enuff of dreamz fer a while.

Settled down... lost track of how long. Still no dreamz.

Mebbe it wuz time to move on...

Went back to warrin fer a time. This wuz a big one so I got to do a mess of wanderin.

I wuz almost gettin in a good mood agin.

My voice got so raspy from the warz, someone said I should be a bluez sanger. So I sang cowboy bluez.

When rock and roll came around, I could croon and I could scream.

I wuz in hog heaven.

The world got faster. Aint hardly anybody rode horsez anymore, they all had these car thingz. Fast and deadly... I loved them.

Party all night, sleep til mnoonid-day, jump in the car and ride. One mind-numbin day ran into another.

I wuz drunk, drugged and runnin hard. It all ended at 60 milez an hour into the back of a truck.

Same like before only dark this time.

Dreamz

Wicked Game

I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot the deppity...

Spose he wuz the feller who clocked me in my preachin cloze

He wuz a smart feller...

The night the old man spotted me in the bank, I thought I could make a run fer it. I bust out of the door and wuz gonna jump my horse but he had a shotgun leveled at me.

I kicked him down but by that time the sheriff wuz drawin a bead on me with his double-barrell. I hit the dirt and brought my piece up but by then old man wuz up and staggerin. My first shot hit him as he fell forward, the sheriff's had hit him, too.

I let fly and dropped the sheriff, his second shot went over my head. Bout that time the deppity come runnin around the corner and let loose one. I jumped my horse and lit out.

This time I woke up in a hospital. When I hollered out a nurse came in.

"You need to rest, sir, you're pretty broken up. You've been asleep a long time."

"A little water will do me..."

Did me some long thinkin...

Been to heaven... been to hell...

I'll stick to Earth.

Done me a whole lot of wanderin. Don’t rightly know where I didn’t go.

Soemtimez mozeyin, sometimez warrin, sometimez runnin.

Did whatever came to hand.