“three assorted-color wigs on practice heads collage” by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Gunslingers

This could be the last outpost
Or the new frontier
Honeycomb fade riveted through time
Left wrangling Levi’s to True Religion
Message unintelligible

Real Texan drawl awash with liquor
No sawdust on wooden floors
Cold beads set in sun swollen faces
Lined by vulture’s feet
Scored in leather

Unlaced corsets on cabinet case
Show girls in the latest fashions
From Paris nineteen or eighteen seventy
Madame a la mode
Laughter obliged

Straight white pearls grimace
And tease appropriately in polite company
Sun stressed from bottled bleach
Wiley side smile stakes
Claim to the dream

No selection pressure put paid
To change, apex has no need
As the fastest draw in the West
Lucky strike and broken arrows
Made Rams and Chargers

From preserved palomino lather
Grew signature supremacy
A main stay on ships that don’t sail
Telegram to Ma Seacole stop
They have not changed stop

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