The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje

(To come) to where eyes will
move in head like a rat
-mad since locked in a biscuit tin all day
stampeding mad as a mad rats legs
bang it went was hot
under my eye
was hot small bang did it
almost a pop
I didn't hear till I was red
had a rat fyt in my head
sad billys body glancing out
body going as sweating white horses go
reeling off me wet
scuffing down my arms
wet horse white
screaming wet sweat round the house
sad billys out
floating barracuda in the brain

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