Slava OlchevskiPoems

No. 0200 · Fenniada ·

I’ll be damned

I know I'll be damnedfor saying in jesthere is the Hunterand there's the rest

hooray and hoo habelieve it or notthe goofball has chancesto hit the pay dirt

with a grab bag of hintsand a motley of clueshe got close enoughto be in the news

that gutsy fruitcakeleft us on the ropeshe crushed our dreamsand falsed our hopes

he had us bamboozledhe has all the cardsalone he wentthe whole nine yards

I would have nailedhis balls to the wallto make the next seasona free-for-all

damned if I say itand damned if I don'tbut he was not searchingin the Yellowstone...