meteor slashes open
the darkness,
Kinkade of Sagesprings
defends the lattice-work
of diversity,

fully understand why
she says a sunset prayer,
her gun is smoking,

hate powdered anthrax
in her mutton, the rest
of the sheep, their days
numbered,

Kinkade of Sagesprings
long gone of social graces,
the land governs life on
the fringe of survival,

Four bearded Young Guns
lay dead, bloody waters,
one mutton less for the
shepherdess, unpotable
Sagesprings water,

retaliation for seeing
Kinkade of Sagesprings
naked with an Arabian
woman putting the designs
on her, the henna tattooes,

"Salaam Alaikum!"
"Peace Be With You!"

Copyright 2006, Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist

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