FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
68
Paul Zarzyski
A Cowboy Reel
Ain't a hand been hatched since 1950.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
70
Paul Zarzyski
She Holds Her Favorite Cowboy Close
Wristwatch strapped over his cuff, a hand.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
71
Paul Zarzyski
The Bucking Horse Moon
A kiss for luck, then we'd let 'er buck.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
74
Paul Zarzyski
Pegasus, She Ain't
Easy-keeper; grass-bellied and grained.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
76
Paul Zarzyski
April Showers
Most bronco I've rode were satisfied to spite you with a fart.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
78
Paul Zarzyski
The Roughstockoholic's "Just-Once-More-Last-One" Blues
What I would pledge for one more horse?
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
81
Paul Zarzyski
A Wild-'n'-Woolly Western Episode from Rodeo Rider Afterlife in the Erroneous, Erogenous Twilight Zone
Middle-aged and still 6-acres-crazy-18.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
1
Jane Webecke
Almost a Cowboy
He first tried to lasso old Bessie.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
3
Jane Webecke
Final Nip
Charles E. DeGraffenried was born in June.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
4
Jane Webecke
Jim DeGraffenried and Cockleburs
Watermelon and cockleburs grew side by side.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
6
Jane Webecke
Pappy's Cat, Houdini
My pappy had an ugly cat, a scrawny, mangy thing.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
7
Jane Webecke
A Little Ring
My brother Lee was older.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
10
Jane Webecke
Missouri Meals
Rhubarb and turnips.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
11
Jane Webecke
Digging to China
We were so poor our front porch view.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
14
Jane Webecke
Honeymoon
The cabin he rented was tiny.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
16
Jane Webecke
Recycled Water
When Dell needed water she hauled it.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
17
Jane Webecke
Donkey
The neighbor's dog was ornery and he barked all night.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
18
Jane Webecke
Dell's First Baking
My mother's biscuits were so light.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
19
Jane Webecke
Bed-Buggy Baby
As he carried his first little baby.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
22
Jane Webecke
Exterminator (or Bed-Buggy Baby II)
When the poison he purchased killed bed bugs.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
23
Jane Webecke
Thawing the Car
Irma Evens was Charlie's in-law.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
25
Jane Webecke
Genetics
I hated when Dell's relatives met at the family farm.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
26
Jane Webecke
Welcome to Our Table
For each Thanksgiving dinner.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
27
Jane Webecke
Dell's Joke
My sweetheart Dell.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
28
Jane Webecke
Castle Foundation
Jane was the first of his kids to be teased.