petey wheatstraw (excerpt)

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He said, "I'm Slim, I'm from a creek that they call Battle.
I took my bare hands and jerked the horns off of a whole goddamn herd of cattle!"
Said, "I'll fuck you up without a cause,
I'll even make yo pappy drop his drawers."
Said, "I got a graveyard disposition and a tombstone mind,
I'll fuck up any muthafucka cause I don't mind dyin'.
I'm forty-six inches across my chest.
I don't fear nothin' but the good Lord and Death."
Petey Wheatstraw said, "Why you long, lanky muthafucka!
You ain't nothin but a sucka.
I was born in a barrel of butcher knives.
I been shot in my ass with two Colt 45s.
I been slapped by a bear and bit by an eel,
I chew up railroad iron and shit out steel.
I jumped in the ocean and swallowed a whale,
Handcuffed lightnin' and throwed thunder's ass in jail.
I walked through the graveyard like a bolt of thunder.
Made the tombstones jump and put the dead on the wonder