BootHill: Who is This Man
overdose of chloroform
by doctor during child birth
suicide by taking arsenic
argument over blue and black
checked shirt
gunfight over a package
wells fargo agent
here lies lester moore four slugs
from a 44 no less no more
card game argument
buried in the only white shirt
found in tombstone
charcoal fumes in a closed room
suicide by strychinine
disputed mining claim
lynched by the bisbee mob
shot by john ringo over the
disparaging remark about a lady
he climbed the golden stairs
on the fumes of a pan of charcoal
he drank stagnant poisoned mine water
dutch annie brothel madam
china mary chinese brothel owner
bill carpenter baptist minister of tombstone
margarita stabbed by gold dollar
preacher with false identification
undertaker displays him in the parlor window who is this man
Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
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Christine
Your western poetry always puts me right there in the middle of the action. Great, acessible images. I can feel the dust and smell the gunpowder.
Chip Bergeron
Amor
One of my favourite revisionist cowboy movies was McCabe and Mrs Miller, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The haunting music of Leonard Cohen complemented the mysterious bleak poetic atmosphere.
best wishes
kenny