DIRGE—‘68 by Mike Wilkerson

Florida—1968 Bix Hertlein waking up slumped in the driver’s seat of his ‘64 Buick Riviera.  Bix’s left hand covers a hole in his gut, his right grips a trumpet.  A blood spattered bottle of rye sits between his legs.  Dark outside.  Stopped on a dirt road flanked by orange groves, sled’s 465 Wildcat engine idling, […]