Northfield, MN - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

you took the baby to your mother’s end of June

& kissed her for the last time

on the bed in your old room

then up to Northfield in the Fairmont just you two

you always drove the getaway

so you wouldn’t have to shoot

& after a couple jobs like clockwork

where not one of you had slipped

you were on your way back to Wisconsin

hit a deer & flipped

came to on the pavement

bleeding hard from the crash

calling to no one

he was as gone as the cash

but there was the Ford flipped under an overpass

the baby seat strapped in the back

the windshield smashed & red streaked

as an exploded dye pack

& so you crawled in & you closed the door

& laid on what was now the floor

& swore that you would figure out the rest

when it was morning