Colt Russian

Poesy plus Polemics

1873 Colt Russian .44 Revolver
Photo from icollections.com

leather-strapped hog leg
blunt tool for the taming
of honkytonk towns an
assertion of confidence
carried across open range
marked a man like a
skull and bones warning
dissuading raw lawless
intentions arising in wild
raucous lands caught up
gritting their teeth in the
face of ungoverned hot
passions the natural pain
freemen incur in the throes
giving birth to ambition

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