Glen Allen’s Legacy

by | May 3, 2013 | Poetry

So you think

by now

everyone’s so

blasé

guns being

here and there

and in between

in real life

and on the silver screen

so much

that no one

breaks a sweat

Well, boy,

it still comes

down

to one gun

one moment

and one sonofabitch

stretching that

moment

into forever

you

sitting on your bed

and him

dead-leveling that

black snake

its mouth wide open

straight at you

and you

pissing your pants

and him saying

Go ahead

you little bastard

move

and you

years later

waiting for it to

strike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About The Author

George Drew

George Drew is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems, Down & Dirty and The View From Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, all from Texas Review Press. His ninth, Drumming Armageddon, will appear in June 2020, Madville Publishing. He was a recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in 2016 for contributions to the Bucks County PA. literary community. George’s biography will appear in Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide, from University of Mississippi Press, edited by Catherine Savage Brosman.