SWEET DREAMS by K.W. Peery

I used to
carry a
kneecappin'
billy club
dubbed
'Sweet Dreams'
between
the console
n' driver's seat
in my
Ninety-Three
Eldorado

It was
handcrafted
out of
hickory
by a
good friend
of mine
and I
only had
to use it
a dozen
times
over a
decade
stretch

Until
it was
no longer
safe to
assume
'Sweet Dreams'
could save me
and I started
carryin' this
J-frame
Chief's Special
instead

About K.W. Peery:

Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of eight poetry collections: 

Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows; Howler Holler; 

Bootlegger’s Bluff; Cockpit Chronicles. 

His work is included in the Vincent Van Gogh Anthology Resurrection of a Sunflower, 

The Cosmic Lost and Found: An Anthology of Missouri Poets (Spartan Press), Best of Mad Swirl Anthology 2018 

and the Walsall Poetry Society Anthology, Diverse Verse II & III. 

Peery’s work has been published in The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, San Pedro River Review, The Gasconade Review, 

Big Hammer, Blink Ink, Rusty Truck, Mad Swirl, Veterans Voices Magazine, Outlaw Poetry, Mojave River Review, The Asylum Floor, 

Horror Sleaze Trash, Ramingo's Porch, From Whispers to Roars, Culture Cult Magazine, The Rye Whiskey Review, Drinkers Only Magazine, 

Under The Bleachers, The Dope Fiend Daily, Punk Noir Magazine, Ariel Chart and Apache Poetry. 

Credited as a lyricist and producer, Peery's work appears on more than twenty studio albums over the past decade.

Website: www.kwpeery.com