2025-07-03 - little red wheelbarrow

so much depends on a little red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens

these days a man dies you can’t leave him be
gotta get his body offa your property mm-hmm

so much depends on a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens
don’t look under the tarp on my red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens

nightfall, gotta get this body to the ravine
no one to hear the splash, no one to make a scene
no one to open no book of no poetry
won’t have to carry the burden of knowing what it means
when I say:

so much depends on a little red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens