The Outlaw . a poem by Alice B. Clagett

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Dear Ones,

Here is a poem about an Outlaw that I wrote early this year. You have to speak it out loud to grok it properly, I feel …

“The Outlaw”
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
22 February 2018

 

My gut,
he would tout,
Is loaded
wit’ lead

That I can’t
be without

Why not?
They’d blurt out

And then
he would shout:

I’d rather be blud-
geoned than
take out that slug
and then wince
to the pinch
of a lynch mob’s
cinch

In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars

Written on 22 February 2018; published on 22 April 2018; revised on 7 June 2023
Added poem to: Tiny Anthologies: Wild West Poems

 

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The Outlaw - A poem.

Image: “Screenshot from The Great Train Robbery (1903),” by Edwin S. Porter, 1 December 1903, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_train_robbery_still.jpg … public domain

Image: “Screenshot from The Great Train Robbery (1903),” by Edwin S. Porter, 1 December 1903, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_train_robbery_still.jpg … public domain
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