King of the Hill

Dale doesn't know she's seeing John Redcorn
Everyone else in town knows.
She's fucking and sucking
ducking and dodging her happiness
hiding away.
Advantage is taken
love is mistaken for a compromise that
was never made.
He's smoking and choking
on jokes and poking at
everything except for the truth.
Dale is a man of secrets too but
no one really cares. He wears an orange hat
it lays his hair flat
still smoking and choking away.
John Redcorn you dog.
A son you can love in shadows
but can't claim him your own.