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# It's Not OK
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/its-not-ok/
- Published: 2025-11-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The shootout at the Not OK Corral. So named not as a judgement or a slight but rather to distinguish its locale for those who, inadvertently, just might confuse it with its neighbor, that one other, where frontier jus...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The shootout at the Not OK Corral.  
So named not as a judgement or a slight  
but rather to distinguish its locale  
for those who, inadvertently, just might  
confuse it with its neighbor, that one other,  
where frontier justice, namely Wyatt Earp  
dispensed with Billy Clanton, though his brother -  
that's Ike, and frankly, much more of a perp -  
went on to live, and not to be confused,  
and you could see how such a thing annoys,  
in ways that would leave any ego bruised,  
with either the old Hatfields or McCoys.  
Which leaves me with but one more thing to say.  
Hell yes, it's a corral… but not ok.

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