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Chasidor Leo handed me a revolver.

“Take this to your old man” said Chasidor Leo

Standing twelve feet tall behind the imposing

Counter of wood and glass displaying his dry goods.

"Watch-out"! warned Chasidor Leo. "It’s cocked and loaded”.

It was me, not Chasidor Leo,
Who handed the weapon to the great, road-tested salesman.

                    I watched him sitting
                    at the kitchen table
                    from the linoleum floor
                    pattern-swirled in marbleized green
                    beneath the circulating fan
                    hanging from the ceiling dropped in cork.


It was there he fired-up the last of 20 rounds placed into his mouth.

Chasidor Leo, proprietor of canned goods and sliced meats, is to be notified herein:

"Chaz, it was an easy shot, but a lucky strike".