Penguin Heresy in the Old West

countershaded for camouflage
their habit tucked inside black dusters
and white bandanas declaring their religion

evolution lineage three sizes of black boots
group migrated westward to ancestral range
avoiding crowded colonies and tobacco-spitting cults

their labia tough to chew the western rockhoppers
jumping over boulders their pistols cocked defending
heresy taken with complimentary whiskey

poker tables outnumber dogma
the rattlesnake in the jar set loose to preachers
doc holliday with a quarrelsome rift and thomas aquinas lost

faro-ology outnumbers epistemology
where we the penguin heresy in the old west
cease to believe in lifelong monogamy where the saloon pours many

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist