INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Duane Locke
Elisavietta Ritchie
Sam Cornish
Alan Britt
Shutta Crum
Joseph McNair
Geoffrey Philip
Lazlo Slomovits
Gerald Clark
Chris Lord
Coleman Barks
Marisella Veiga
Joanie Freeman
Dave Etter
Steve Barfield
scharCbear
Michael D. Long
Karyn M. Wolven
Running Cub
Silvia Scheibli
Mountaintop burial from Shane, a film directed by George Stevens
we are the widowers mourners
of the dead
buried here today
sons fathers husbands gone
from the land farm
women have a misery
our men live and die
in the dirt and mud
of a thousand Tombstones
Bitter Creeks and Dodge Cities
in the harsh suns and winters
of this widow's west
men of the shortest years
saved the last bullet
for the women who followed them "going to the
western lands"
the shirt on his back for days
the stinking pants of him my rebel boy
his home now is underfoot that
dead pig sodbusting Dixie whistling man of mine
THE LONE RANGER
He is the masked man with the silver bullet and horse
white man hunting badmen
look out Mr. Jesse James he don't
care about the railroad blowing up
your man in
the farmhouse
Robert Ford (dirty little coward)
taking aim
on your back
he is the masked man
William Bonney AKA
Billy The Kid killing twenty one
men he
has a bullet a rope just for you
farmers eating beef like corn you did
not
grow
sodbusting fool he will stop you
hungry don't mean breaking the law
you are and he is the masked man
and the law is in both barrels of his
Colt and iron gloved fist
Sam Cornish, Brighton, Mass.