Mark Reep

M a r k  R e e p 

That'll Be Two Bits

Before morning taps shyly at night’s gates

you will do irredeemable violence

to an overzealous translator

bent on rewriting your self-published novel.

Certain rare but serious side effects

will occur. Just pedal faster.

You’ll have this, in a fallen world,

in a small town with no sheriff.