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Free Painted Mustangs

By shoebox

Sat, 24 Nov 2007
  • 965 reads
 

Free painted mustangs
Gallop the range
Stir thick dust
Beneath vultures’ rings

Cacti are speechless
But none stands pale
The setting sun cries
Out another day’s tale.

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