Louis L'Amour and Sage Sweetwater: Religion Bites the Dust

When Madam Blaze Starr
is present in sacred anointing
Rose of Sharon is blessed to be
born again, the pulpit that is going
to hell, isn't there something better
to do with time of the fossil-dick men
in the den

Louis L'Amour gold prospector
and miner, his poetry Smoke from
This Altar, Sage Sweetwater's pulp
chain poetry Blame the Fire at Shiloh

heroes and villians, his short story
collection post-humous The Sackett Companion,
her short story collection turned film The Sundance Wives:
The Gates of Doogun Hill and Night of the Foal: The New Riders
of the Purple Sage

Religion bites the dust
God is choked with liars
and Jesus traffickers chomping
at the bit, villians who made Sweetwater's
ride to the top of fame and fortune a pleasure
to be an honest lesbian western writer in the ranks
of Louis L'Amour with Madam Blaze Starr: Whiskey and
Sagebrush Truth in Eights and Aces.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist