Wyatt Earp Puts a Scratch in the Victrola Timeline

aces and eights
his trademark beat
the fox terrier nipper
staring into the horn of
edison bell the tombstone
chronicling its defects at the
gates of hell wyatt scratched
the victrola timeline with a whore's
sewing needle preacher sounded like
a broken record spreading stale gossip
he called a sermon that doc holliday refuted
as evil that he died with boots on his feet

controversy was
the man's wife left him
long ago for another woman
nipper cocked his ear on what
historians say was the deceased man's
coffin lid airborne sound waves made it
to the church the organ player replaced with
the gramophone the implication that his wife
fancied a woman's sound-modulated groove in a
a range of audio infidelity without the organ in
the background noise

ater dealing
a hand of faro
in cuero

and for
more of a
"classical" literature -
wyatt earp put a scratch
in the victrola timeline with
the whore's sewing needle chronicling
its defects thus the advent of the wind-up
wifeless preacher
 

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater,  Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist