Part-Time Preachers and Hobby Horse Poets

doc holliday
said it -  "a huckleberry
at a mummer's parade can
spot the asses"

painted skulls
painted ladies
part-time preachers
old men in black coats
with moses walking sticks
their whiskey flasks falling
out of their straw-stuffed costumes
preaching straight jackets of another
meaning

doctor and nurse
in white coats wielding
an inflated pig bladder on
a stick my beaver felt hat fits
like a masturbating clear rubber glove
"Felt Up!" by the tricorne coming three sides
of the brim fashionably sexed in the 18th century
I graduated from a pointed cap and a tassel bucking
my hind quarters accompanied by firecrackers

three-pronged hayfork
pantomime horse's ass
wyatt earp said "ploughmen
can kiss mine disguised we got
us a corral load sittin' right over there
tails attached to the cloth"

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist