Dallas Clayton Writer, Artist and Author of An Awesome Book.

TO PLACE

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TO PLACE

Went to watch a horse race.
Happens in the worst part of the city
where people are still living
well into the past.
For better or worse?
I can’t say.

I bet on the horse with the dumbest name
“Bad Boy.”
Won $85.
How many other people
used the same logic
and came up short.