The soil here is in summer so I buried my father in a of rocks, a behind St. Catherines church to lay rest the gilded of pitiable men.
With gold to the North, Quartzburg out its whores, its and roughnecks. They settled camp.
Pa every day to mine. Id him to the gulch, my pan and in hand, a child to riches.
The often staged bull and fights near the bar. kept a boy entertained when there were no to enjoy.
The Cantonese the quarries, working for less the Whites. My father would the Orientals, yet home reeking of opium.
A of my friends and I to explore the creek. The kneeled there, for gold. We mocked him, and him, I prodded him my knife. He his revolver and in the air. The bullet off of a stone and my leg. I ran back to the town.
the Chinaman, clutching the noose.
Law arrived. The sheriff he be jailed and properly tried.
Gangs at night the jail. led, in hand, in his cell. lies. Tempted leaves, the his arm the bars.
The lynch mob swiftly the gleaners hand. Father the collar his neck. The horde on the rope, dragged and choked, his dashed upon the wall.
Soon all the mines dried but that blood did. Red still stains the jail wall. Father was tried, mourn a foreigner, but I saw in his eyes. all the riches spent, the left the town yet I stayed to here still. When Father died of I did not for him. I the grave unburdens his sins.
I pray that someone will to bury me. I pray someone will remain.