Kevin DeMello Schutt is a Brazilian American poet and writer living and working in Boston M.A. He is a graduate from the MFA at Emerson College and a recipient of the Academy Of American Poets Award. His work has appeared on Poets.org and in Swamp Ape Review, Driftwood Press and Emerge Literary Journal.
Mula Sem Cabesa
it was dead already the mule was
tom stole his dad’s hatchet we was
gonna throw it at a fence post on the farm
the bank took from mr. abernathy
we didn’t kill it we swear we wanted to
be like those hunters have a trophy of our own
tom got the switch for stealing his dad’s hatchet
I got a hug and therapy for coming home
covered in blood and everyone else
got a ghost story about a lady who fucked a priest