Ballad of Crista Mather

sharps buffalo rifle
behind the pulpit god
with a gun the cowboys mafia
problem of tombstone preacher
on the run stealing the stagecoach
strongboxes recruiting a band of cowboys
to fuel an organized gang

crista mather built
a religion around the fort
urine of foxes backed by the
wolf fang wyatt earp carried riding
shotgun for wells fargo prize bounty
for johnny ringo

silver bullion
coming in on the stage
that day crista mather in
defiance of the weapon ordinance
went for the pulpit said a prayer and loaded
up to defend what later would take one humerus bone
of virgil earp no god could stop the rage doc holliday opened
the corral gate for her there was a law a spouse couldn't testify
against a spouse

...but he wasn't a spouse

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist