Literature
wild wild west.
ignore the pointed hat baby,
i’m ten gallons of poison and
bile,
vile –
when storms sweep in
from the badlands
on black chargers
and appaloosa steeds
they blow me
like tumbleweed
through dustbowl towns
with hivemind townfolk
and priest’s pretty daughters,
what is love but
vile,
wild?
this one has eyes
like a renegade fire,
kisses an effigy of me
before she goes to dream,
i swear i’ll leave
when the hurricane next calls,
but she is all ribbon and
strawberry freckles,
lying in fields of sweet-grass
and hiding my gifts of wolf’s bane
and eye of newt in satin bags
where her rosaries ought to be –