Kootenai Jail

I arrive, at Kootenai Jail Way too late, for visiting hours The lot goes dark, the parking lot's cold My window's down, in falling snow Lit basketball court, 'neath searchlight poles Fence top droops down, no one scores Where there's footprints from 10pm Last cigarette, this ain't your house No smoking in bed And I've come too late, to see my friend Suppose it does nothing, to stare at where he's been A half-bit sandwich, laying in the snow Made a bright mustard slick, where it got kicked By some uncaring dick