the story

Sign in Hamilton County, beyond Fairy, beyond
the road to Dublin, says the vote for secession
was eighty six to one, turns to a few lines
about travel in the Civil War and the descent
into lawlessness. Nothing more about the one
is the story, and I thank the State of Texas
for thinking in spite of itself

to tell it in the silence of a sign.
© Steven Schroeder

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