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Peter's Song, 1/1/2018

By Jess
After he'd been singing for a while in the car on the way home from Michigan, I grabbed some scrap paper and did my best to write down what I could hear from the front seat.

"...Everything that would be on a plane
it has four propellers
80 hundred until 1900 hundred
and he died in the early 94s
Those tanks except they shoot guns right out of their guns
There was a war and they changed to real weapons, real gunpowder
And in the early 94s those that were different
my bones fat... a gravestone of Kentucky
...and I saw what a gravestone looked like and I liked it.
And in the early 94s an early broken neck
Covered with a new... the wheels go around and round, round and round,
I can show you the tractor... it was a really good tractor, like the one in my hand
...
Went to the hospital and then I got better
and the war began again and I got my uniform

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