📃 Daily(ish) poem → 00343 ◊ they said ◊ J. Bruce Fuller
they said
they said blood is made in the bones but oil comes from the gulf
and when the storms rock the rigs the chaplain takes confessions
and the boys cross themselves all night
they said big dan got blown up and burned all over
and now he lights his cigarettes with his ring finger
they said the settlement money is long gone
they said when the rigs catch fire some boys jump
they said them boys burn and even the water can’t put em out
—J. Bruce Fuller
—found in How to Drown a Boy (2024)