Ragged
veins of yesterday
Hoping
change will play
A
role in what tomorrow brings
Pandering
round the new canteen
The
colors of impeccability
Who
Doesn’t like a Western?
The baseline for a dream
Slow
it down, before you pick something up
Let
the dirt settle, before you kick the dust astir
Tin,
dangling in the saloon
Philosophies
coloring the spittoon
And
for those that disagree
They’ll
build a hangman’s noose in turn
Mining
the fossils for what might be more
Spinning
the wagons, as you search miles for,
All
the potential in the open land
Where
you’ll either be a legend
Or
a forgotten man
Love me a good western. Although that hangman's noose would be rather uninviting and all the spitting and horse manure would really affect my ocd, so I don't think actually being there would be the best for me..haha...you captured the moment well.
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i like mine cheesy or spaghetti, maybe because i am currently hungry, kinda scary though the justice on the frontier can be harsh if you dont watch your back and even your front...philosophy coloring the spittoon...nice...
ReplyDeleteBring on the John Wayne, Baby! Or some Clint Eastwood in his westerns, yeah.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think something big is a-gonna go down at high noon, soI better be outta site when them dueling pistols come out! :)
Who wouldn't like a world where the air bristled with possibility, where it was up to you how things turned out and, as it turns out, it's always up to us. To me that's what the west and westerns were about. Good write!
ReplyDeletePat, yes the hangman's noose is uninviting, and OCD probably doesn't go well with these, which makes it great that you can just read these words from me-lol
ReplyDeleteBrian- Spaghetti sounds good. Oh yeah western justice was pretty much another world from where we're supposed to be now, it really was a different way of living, that's for sure
Jannie- great comment- really got into the moment, that's awesome, thanks
Joanne- I agree, the west had a few facets to it, one was the marshall type of justice Brian mentioned, but overall it was a world where learning, experiencing and opportunity abounded. Sure there were problems as there were today, but with so much territory unexplored at the time, possibility certainly did present a notion of promise.
Thanks for the replies, really appreciate them