The Standoff

by the time I made it back
everyone in town was gone
walking on cracks, falling into
the gaps, not long after, that
 the crown, the gown, cap
had to cuff up my Levi's
sweating from the sunrise
sipping tiny, tealeaves
counting all the palm tree's
loving city life, but, damn
 I love me some country
out in the stash, outback
burning the trash, legal
hunting Jack Rabbits
with a beagle, making
bullets in the.... shed
just rode in, got snowed in
with a psychopath, 13 days
in combat, feeling like
a wombat, what was that
running through the grass
it had 4 legs, moving fast
she was, bumpin her gums
slurring her words
jumping the curve
getting on my nerve
on that liquor
Caribbean Rum
"hello...go tell the sheriff
to come and, come quick quickly, please
there's a severed head
in the deep freeze
I'm holding a knife
tightly, in my hand
feeling so... at ease