[wardaddy]

If I had to choose, I would choose standing up, facing a firing squad, no hood or blindfold, and I would want to be outside so I could see the sky.

Powderfinger bump!

[Travis McGee]

But when the first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming.

Raised my rifle to my eye, never stopped to wonder why,

Then I saw black, and my face splashed in the sky....

....

Shelter me from the powder and the finger,

cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger.

Just think of me, as one you'd never figure,

would fade away so young,

so much left undone,

remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.

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(I'm sort of at the Powderfinger moment in the book right now in chapter 58.)