YOU AIN’T KILL GEE?
I asked, confused.
No, I did,
Pop confirmed, his voice crumbling.
But Gee didn’t kill Mark.
Gee was just some young kid
trying to be tough,
trying to make
a few friends,
a few bucks,
a flunky
for the guy who killed Mark,
he explained.
Then
Then why
Then why you kill him?
I asked.
I didn’t know he wasn’t the right guy,
Pop said, a tremble in
his throat.
I was sure that was Mark’s killer.
Had
to be.