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He drifts into town on his 
faithful quarter horse called Moose 
who has a three-legged gait 
which gives him saddle sores 
when riding miles from place to place. 

A desert wind storm hits them hard,
he pulls his cowboy hat down his face 
so the sand won't sting his deep-set brown eyes,
he sees a faded sign in red lettering advertising 
" EL ROJOS CANTINA "  as it bangs against 
the cracked adobe and tiled-roofed building. 

A pretty senorita dressed in a ruby-red dress 
greets the unshaven drifter as he stumbles 
through the double-saloon doors,
the cantina is dark and dank with smells of 
stale cigarette smoke and cheap whiskey,
hunger and thirst overwhelm him in that 
he ignores the stench of the bar and eatery. 

The brazen and sultry woman sits at his 
table and begins to sing in a husky voice 
while a man with a guitar accompanies her, 
male patrons smile at her flamboyant low-cut 
dress as she begins singing in a seductive mood:

Stranger you are handsome to look at 
as I stare at you and purr like a cat, 
let's get together and see 
if something develops between you and me, 
my name is Ventura, a lucky charm, 
I want to be your woman and mean no harm, 
please take me away from this place, 
so I will not die here in disgrace. 

It didn't take much convincing, 
Ventura and the drifter rode off together 
into the red sunset after the sand storm 
on a long and bumpy ride on Moose with 
his three-legged gait while the senorita 
hung onto her billowing dress which 
blew over her face. 

Years passed and Ventura lying down and close to death, 
confesses she loved a man named Hildago who left her 
at the altar and filled her with humiliation before 
family and friends until a drifter swept in and  saved 
her from mortification and disgrace, 
her man of many years weeps for the woman who was 
his lucky charm wearing a red dress whom he met at 
El Rojos Cantina during a tumultuous desert storm. 


August 8, 2016
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