Cowboys?
by Jeff Hildebrandt
Do cowboys still find time to rhyme when cattle’s bedded down?
Or do they just hop in their cars and beat it back to town?
Do cowhands still
swap stories like
those hands
did years ago?
Or is that bit of
history gone like
the buffalo?
The romance of
the range lives on
around the
campfire’s light
in the minds of all
the wannabes who
spend each day
and night
doing what those
cowboys did a
hundred years ago.
And it’s up to full time buckaroos to let them think that’s so.
They long to ride Ben Johnson style with smooth and flowing grace.
Have a showdown with a grizzled cur and spit right in his face.
They’re living out a fantasy in hats and chaps and vest,
pretending to be real cowhands in the wild and wooly West.
Say what you will of tenderfeet, of dudes and wannabes
but if the West is to survive it’s up to folks like these.
Cause, were it not for wannabes, why use a horse at all?
They’d round up cows from ATV’s while making cell-phone calls.
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