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The Distaff

from Adelaide by Bad Luck City

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I had just put everything down
On long shot Adelaide’s Bones
3 years old
19 to one
A girl beside me started poking fun

That number eight can’t win at all, let alone win in this slop, she said
As rain turned the track to mud
Desperately
We endured the storm
Until the sun peeked in on our daily racing forms

My last chance came kicking from the paddocks
I’m always proud of an angry beast
Adelaide
Was my grandmother’s name
She was a gambler, but found the races inhumane

The gates fired like cannons at the scream of the bell,
Number eight came up the inside like the hammers of hell
She got four furlongs out and was still building her stride
When her legs snapped beneath her and she tumbled across the finish line

The jockey stumbled for the rail
As the rest of the horses came thundering by
Din of hooves
Like roaring accolades
While the crowd moaned its sullen serenade

The crippled 8 struggled to rise
The girl beside me gasped, and whispered for her god
No god came
Just a man in a yellow coat
Who injected some death into Adelaide’s throat

A truck drove onto the track, and parked at the corpse’s side
There was some nervous applause, like she might still be alright
But they covered her with a tarp, her teeth still locked on the bit
And I took down two thousand, eight-hundred-fifty like it wasn’t shit

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from Adelaide, released February 29, 2008

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