Saturday, January 3, 2009

All-Around Cowboy


after the rodeo
at cottonwood falls
we drank beer
out of my Stetson
danced on brick streets
to Bob Wills
the Texas swing
leaving my hat on
after too many longnecks
we made love
beside that old truck
like I was the last
cowboy on earth.


by Scot Young

2 comments:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

In another life Scot Young used to be a construction worker but for the last 19 years
he has been paid to hang out with kids. He started writing poems again after a 30 year
absence and has published one or two. He may be the only school principal in America
to have all of Christopher Robin's books and occasionally teaches a poetry class to the
Breakfast Club. He once sang with Kenny Loggins and wrestler Dirty Dick Murdoch,
but mainly he just puts bread on the table.

shootsandvines said...

I don't think I'll ever get enough of your work, Scot...even if I had great big books full of it.

Great stuff,
Crystal

The Tea Cup Hills

The Tea Cup Hills steam up, the mist swirling above endless green. I walk the quiet trails forever thinking of the bodies piling up in ...