We need kind people, good song and laughter.
We need kind people, good song and laughter.
I found Joe Ann at a strip club. Only place near Fort Hood that played my Detroit sports.
She would sit with me and hold my hands. She told me often.
” Johnnie, Johnnie. You write poetry and you love the sports. Do you really see me?
When I dance on the stage. You give me money and you bow to me.
Do you love me or do you fear me?”
I told her. We do what we must do. I am a soldier and I work for the government pennies.
I do what I am told. Nothing as nasty as a cheap whore. Soldiers are cheap whores for the
the rich men. I adore you and I understand what you do. We try not to be but we become
slaves for the fat men. She smiled and she kissed him.
On a Saturday night after the Lion’s game. I saw her by her car. The battery dead as a door knob.
Joe Ann looked at me confused. I told her. Tell Stanley in the office. Joe Ann, you will
leave your car till tomorrow. I will take you to buy a new battery in the morning.
I drove her home and she held silence. The harmony of the music was good and
she asked me. Did you leave a old lover back in Michigan? I told her.
No-one loved Johnnie In Michigan except Grandma. This is enough.
She laughed and she took my hand. I don’t work tomorrow and maybe we can
do a adventure. I love to see the sea. Been so long since I put my feet in the sea.
I told her. I will take the couch and in the morning. Buy a battery for you car and I will take
you anywhere. She was wearing jeans and a tight t-sheet.
She was a Texas born beauty.
Her house, forty miles in the Texas Desert. Was so beautiful.
She had a covered garden and 10 acres of land away from the cities.
You could count the stars in the black sky.
She took me into a house filled with paintings, books and old furniture.
She told me. My grandma lived here and I was the only one willing to live here.
I told her. It is wonderful and so beautiful. She made coffee and she wrapped her
long legs over me. I told her. I adore you dear Joe Ann. But I am a soldier, I can
be deployed at anytime. Do you want to waste time with a soldier.
A soldier love. Can be loaned or borrowed. I like you, you are my friend.
I don’t want to lose your friendship. She smiled and she told me.
” Love be damned,
love me sweet.
Kindness be rare.
Just kiss, just hold me.
I am so cold and I need to be warm.
Please stay with me for awhile.
I am mighty lonely and I need a friend.”
I reached and I kissed her. I stayed the night, I stay with her till I was deployed.
She was my Texas gift, she was my Texas miracle.
Coyote