The American poet Henry Rifle is dead.
Were he here, he would tell you that was probably the closest he ever got to capturing the truth as h.
He might especially appreciate it if you remembered him for his last collection of poems--Ballistics Report.
Undoubtedly, he would prefer the latter.
Or you could remember him for his poems and the charitable work he liked to tell people he did.
You could remember him as the guy who fell in a hail of bullets launched his way by a Mexican firing squad.
The American poet Henry Rifle is dead