how the words just came

while hank

williams wrote

your cheating heart on the back

of an envelope

while near

sober in a bus station

somewhere between

fear and doubt,

just outside of

nashville.

did he stop and think

of immortality.

that his words and songs

would be 

remembered forever,

or did he wallow

in the pain

and make the most

of it.

yes.

saying later, as he stummed,

how the words

just came.