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The Demise of Jesse Brown
by Bonnie M Torrente → (All Poetry by Bonnie M Torrente)
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~ The Demise of Jesse Brown ~




The hot sun shone on Jesse’s neck,
A few more miles to town,
On the trail eleven days,
To help out "Kooter Brown."


Uncle Kooter’s health was failing,
Jess would run his ranch.
A spread well known to folks in town,
Kooter’s "El Savory Branch."




"El Savory," a cowboy town,
of ranch hands raising hell.
Fresh in from a cattle drive.
Hot right off the  trail.

Jess rode into town,
tied-up his horse at Nell’s Saloon.
Two wooden doors push open,
his spurs jingling through the room.




Jess orders up a branch water,
to quench his dusty thirst.
After two or three, he rents a room…
a bath comes first.


Pays a liveryboy to take his horse,
for feed and care,
Then had one more while waiting,
for hot water, heated there.




"Hey! you ole Kooter Brown’s kin,
come to run "El Savory Branch?"
"You’ll be runn’in more’in cattle,
Kooter bootlegs on that ranch!"


"Steel’in business from Old Nell,
"white lightnin" brewed instead."
Gun raised, he fired three bullets…
Today Jesse Brown is dead.





 

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 Reviews of "The Demise of Jesse Brown"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on February 10, 2005
Nice tale in poetic terms. Thank you for sharing this offering, Bonnie. Love and peace to you. Regis

Reviewed on February 7, 2005
Excellent Bonnie!

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Reviewed by Sue Hess
Reviewed on February 4, 2005
this reminds me of robert service, one of my favorite poets

Reviewed by John Hutchinson
Reviewed on February 4, 2005
Another good one amigo. Where do you come up with all these interesting concepts?

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on February 4, 2005
well told ... enjoyed reading!

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on February 3, 2005
Great tale.

Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader)
Reviewed on February 3, 2005
Hmm and that was that. Too often that was the way it did end for the moonshiners.


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