From The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
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(To come) to where eyes will move in head like a rat mad since locked in a biscuit tin all day stampeding mad as a mad rats legs bang it went was hot under my eye was hot small bang did it almost a pop I didn't hear till I was red had a rat fyt in my head sad billys body glancing out body going as sweating white horses go reeling off me wet scuffing down my arms wet horse white screaming wet sweat round the house sad billys out floating barracuda in the brain








