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two cowboy poems

 

Hi-Lonesome

 

She needs a cowboy, a big-hearted man, 

To ride into her life, gather her up, 

Knock those demons out of her head. 

 

There's a buckaroo 

Riding the Hi-Lonesome plain tonight

And he's looking for her. 

 

They'll need some magic, it's vast,
But it's quiet—and two hearts

Beating as one sound like thunder.

 

 

 

The Lonesome Cowboy

 

Listening to AM 

Because that's all there is, 

In the truck, alone, driving country roads. 

 

Here comes that Ricky Nelson song,

About a garden party he attended with regret, 

For the hundredth goddamn time. 

 

I am, without a doubt, 

The loneliest goddamn cowboy 

In the state of Colorado.

 

 

 

— Hanque O

 

 

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Written on 2021-12-01 at 23:27

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
These have some authenticity to them. I'm not a cowboy, but I've lived the second one.
2021-12-02



Reading these again, is like putting on a pair of slippers...they just feel right.
2021-12-01