Campfire Song
by Mark Scott Ricketts
Hard handbags and soft white plastic sandals.
Cowgirl Housewife” was her CB handle.
Puffed up hair, stacked to the sky . . .
. . . makes me wonder why . . .
. . . she was the sweetest thing that ever was to die.
Oh, Shelley Martinez, a woman with all her teeth she was.
She was the one I was to wed, she was. . .
. . . the little bobbin’ head on the dashboard of my bed.
She was everything that mama never was.
That’s what she was.