Civil War Horses and Lesbian Poker Players

same affect as
a red flag has upon
a bull they charge it
to the poker bank Hard Bread!
Hard Bread!

placing their bread
opening with the Cracker Line
blood in the pit shoe sole deep
wailing away at their first site of a
negro in a blue uniform and a cigar-smoking
lesbian poker player dressed in britches and
suspenders hair cut short like a man uniform
zips at the fly bulging with their pack strapped on
would look too conspicuous strapped on her horse

civil war horses and
lesbian poker players
packing like a steed Grey
Eagle Robert E. Lee's sire 16-hand
gray racehorse running in a stake race
bets placed on whose dick was coming
out in Louisville Kentucky 1839 not softening
to the depreciation of confederate money

"Lee to the rear!"
such a picture would
inspire a poet and in
observation how any one
could ride a horse for any
length of time without a perfect
understanding being established
between them

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist