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Seven Men
by Pirate Turner
Back in the past,
In the old, wild West,
There were seven men.
Seven men
Who fought for justice.
Seven men
Who did what their hearts told them were right.
Seven men
Who made sure the law was followed in Four Corners.
The leader of these seven men
Was Chris Larabee.
He stood tall,
Dressed in black.
To neither his enemies nor even his friends,
Would he turn his back.
Not for discussion was his past -
For filled with sorrow and pain was that past.
Sorrow for what had happened to the people he loved the most;
Pain caused by the deaths of his wife and son.
Now out of the seven men
Was Vin Tanner,
The one Chris trusted most
Even though he was also the one whose past
They knew of the least.
What they did know was that he was sharp -
Some claimed he was even faster on the draw than Chris himself.
He had some unfinished business in his hometown
Where he had a price on his head
For a death he didn't commit.
In the midst of the seven men
Was another mystery man -
This one called Josiah.
Once a priest,
He had lost his faith.
No one knows rather it was his faith
In the Lord or himself that he lost.
The reason he gave
For having lost his faith
Was that he had a little trouble
"Turning the cheek"
As he so often put it.
The others could only guess
As to what he meant.
Except...
Maybe...
Nathan Jackson.
Nathan had been a slave before the Civil War,
But he had served in the army as a stretcher barrier during the War.
His experience from the War
Made him the closest thing to a doctor that Four Corners had.
Where and how exactly he had met Josiah
Was known by only one other - Josiah.
A doctor is certainly somebody you need
When you and your friends will be getting shot.
Out of the seven men,
Buck Wilmington was probably the one
Who got himself shot the most,
Due to his animal magnetism
And his scoundrel ways.
Buck had been getting into trouble
Long before he had ever met Chris.
Or maybe the one who got shot the most was Ezra Standish
For cheating at cards.
Out of the seven men,
Ezra was without a doubt the best
When it came to gambling.
But gambling wasn't the only thing Ezra was good at -
He was also good at getting his friends out of trouble.
That is, *after* he got them into that trouble.
The youngest of the seven men
Was JD Dunne.
As easy life had JD Dunne.
Or at least the others thought so.
In truth, it wasn't an easy life
But a hard one that JD had had.
His father he had never known,
And his mother had died a year before he had came out West
With the money she had given him for college.
Now don't go thinking that JD was lazy
And that that was why he didn't go to college
Like his mother had wanted.
A college education was something JD had also wanted,
But he couldn't get in -
He didn't have enough money.
So he had taken the money
And followed his dreams out West.
And now you know the seven men
Who, in their time and even now,
Are known as The Magnificent Seven -
The seven men
Who fought for justice.
The seven men
Who did what their hearts told them were right.
The seven men
Who made sure the law was followed in Four Corners.
The End