Thursday, December 17, 2009

The 4th Poem ~ The Not-So-Great Escape

Group #4 tells about Santa's escape


Savannah Forester
Pecos Vaughn
Shawna O’Keefe

The not-so-great escape from the bank
Began with shots, real ones not blank

They used the girls as shields to get out
The bullets were flying about

They ran out of gas on the side of the road
They money was a huge load

They got another car to help; the driver a fourteen year old
Ratliff forgot the money and one man the story is told

Back into their car the chase was on
When the sheriff caught up they were already gone

Finally the police officers arrested Ratliff and his gang
Without a whole lot of bang

The 5th Poem ~ The Capture

Group #5 tells of the capture of 'Santa'


Jared Stamey
Tyler Murray
Juan Lopez

Before Bradford’s car rolled to a stop, he was out with double barrel shotgun
He shot three men one of them was barely still alive while the others were having fun

After they escaped by the Brazos River
They tried to steal a car from Mr. Wylie, a young driller

Mr. Wylie’s father aimed for one of the robbers then shot his son
The robbers got away with nothing to eat except for oranges, and that’s not fun

The robbers were suffering from their injuries and lack of food
They weren’t in a very good mood

They returned to Cisco to hide in plain sight
The next morning when there wasn’t very much light

Then they were caught by Sheriff Foster
He was so tall they thought he was a monster

The 6th Poem ~ The Lynching

Group #6 tells of the fate of 'Santa'...


Hallie Taylor
Kase Gayle
Nicholas Thompson
Evan Martinez

After the robbery he was put in jail
Hold on a second, that’s not the whole tale

They moved him back to Eastland in 1929
He was put in jail without a dime

First he tried escape then he killed a jailor
So far, all that he did was a BIG failure

He was probably taken outside where it was really freezing
He was going to be hung and mob didn’t do much teasing

Then behind the Majestic Theater where they were playing “The Noose”
They hung Santa like a Christmas goose!!

The first time they tried, Santa fell down
That must have been embarrassing in front of the whole town!

So the Santa Claus tale comes to a close
A bank robbery gone bad and history made in a little town called Cisco