Alt Text:
a tumbleweed blown across a dry road.
Backstory:
Untamed, the poem, was inspired by old Wild Western movies and music such as the song, Wanted Dead or Alive by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.
Greasy locks mock the wind,
Old dusty roads,
Leathered yellow-brown skin.
Rattle snake hisses,
Skinny ribs crawl away.
Barns of rusted metal,
Sand and sorrow in the bed one stays.
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Saloon silver spurs,
Dug in heels.
Phantom pianos,
Undressed girls with lasso squeals.
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Dried weeds twist in fury,
Horizontal tornado's set alight.
Caught between hot ember and shiny amber,
Renegade and the Runner,
Take cover;
Behind broncos saddle,
Mane,
And gaskin.
Blue denim jacket
First to the trigger,
The quiver,
Metal bowstring.
Clock tower at twelve,
The noon sun blinds,
Shot-shell,
Ground runs red;
Mud,
Blood,
And heart Queen bets.
A lifetimes debt,
No settled scores,
Trading sticks and stones,
For bullets and bones.
Six feet doesn't seem enough,
To save the day;
Let weapons dust in the rough.