Smoking Gun

Evidence triggers reformation
Hindu holsters tailored with double barrels of koan
Story gleaned by intuition...[Sage Sweetwater]

The Moon cannot be stolen
The thief has come a long way to visit
Here take my clothes as a gift I'll sit naked

I watch the Moon
Under whiskey-tea-etiquette True Reformation
Study of Zen

Belle Starr
dressed in black
velvet riding habit,
two pistols, crackshot,
cartridge belts across her
hips, campfire spit roasting
the impostor rabbit, it died black
with a white collar, skunk, her story
picked up by the dime novel, Sweetwater's
western pulp fiction frontier tales, distinguished
brand, alternative flagship titles tying the material
together evolving into the lesbian western on screen,
what of the one who preaches without enlightenment;
He kills religion with the smoking gun.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist