Wanted Dead or Alive: The Sundance Wives

playin' for
keeps, pastures
turn themselves inside
and out for us, smoking guns
out of their holsters, four bad-ass
pony express riders with elite silk vadges,
law between our legs, enforcers of the range,
wanted dead or alive gives fire to our outlaw badges,

rape, blackmail
and extortion just
nasty ash rising from
the ugly, sinister deeds
of satan's disguise, dust
of the past just particles of
wayward karma on their way
to Hollywood to settle a score,
testimony of the saloon whore
said it was Jett Durango at the
brass who came to town to kick
some ass,

pray is just
another word for
those who hide in
our shadows, the gods
keep honesty out of the hands
of our foes so we can weaken them
with our own scripture, the land is richer,
the population wiser, we're wanted dead or alive,
The Sundance Wives.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist