FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

182

Buck Ramsey

The Man For Our Time

Old Dunder had been on a jaunt into town for to check on the state of the nation. It only took Dunder a short look and listen to size up the whole situation.

man, legend, cowboy

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

186

Buck Ramsey

The Sadhom Lad Gift or Phooman Connuestry

CLe Jaybob of Sadhom And Stanley of Phoo Glowed poised for a party Of louderdin hue.

poetry, crew, nonsense

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

188

Buck Ramsey

The Slipper Waltz

Kid Tybo Tremain of the old Star Cross outfit Had yet his last measure to grow, But he rode like a tick on brush country cowdog But he rode like a tick on brush country cowdog And looped the beast, head, heel or toe.

dog, cowboy crew, waltz

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

202

Buck Ramsey

The Terrorist

If I were a poet, a prominent one Who might at times be asked for interviews I would be true to the usual type And ready with answers, and if I were, As surely I would be, asked a question

terrorist, poetry, distraction

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

208

Buck Ramsey

Untitled

Shrugging at us for whom all things were made, Who are ends in ourselves, the end of all, As if we, primal, chosen, arsenalled?

creation, existence, life

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

210

Buck Ramsey

Poem in Arabic

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Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

212

Buck Ramsey

Untitled

These lover's families know for sure This beauty here would all soon pass And nothing here would long endure Without the blessed growing grass.

lovers, wedding, gift

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

214

Buck Ramsey

Two Deaths In The Spring

Men and Women both wondered about the ferocity that must have been hidden in this small young man everybody called Bear.

death, spring, youth

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

220

Buck Ramsey

Wearing Out Welcomes

Seemest thou the fucker went berserk Or aimed quietly akimbo In your perpendicular place? Seemest he did bask like like a snowman

crazy, beast, welcome

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

222

Buck Ramsey

With Regard To Stuff Dippers

Old Belvedere Botsworth was parked at a bar, fresh back from a trip down to Texas, And he was atellin' his New Yorker pals how he'd picked up some brand new complexes.

texas, condom, cowpunch

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

224

Buck Ramsey

World News Tonight With Commentary

Big Bully and Little Bully Go to mouthing of at one another.

news, commentary, baby

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

226

Buck Ramsey

Notes for a Novel

"I cannot sleep. All time passing. The old days fade like dusking light. Oh, fast awake, I want a sounding That carried sleep one long gone night."

novel, notes, farm

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

240

Buck Ramsey

Unknown

Well to the leather born." Old Dunder, augering the Kid, Was brushing on the paint In strokes that made the Fiddle look A downright cowboy saint.

paint, outfit, cowboy

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

244

Buck Ramsey

Bad Job (Bum Thinking Nowhere Near a Horse)

If you see me sittin' sorrowful, all busted up and stove-up And you wonder how a puncher gits that way, I can tell you at the start-off to avoid all work aground If you rope and ride ahorseback for yore pay.

barrel, rodeo, bucked

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

246

Buck Ramsey

Dunder Defining (Being a one-sided conversation with the Kid about his daddy)

"Yeah he'd be called a 'daisy hand' If this was bygone days Before the meanings changed their names And cowboys changed their ways.

names, cowboy, tradition

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

248

Buck Ramsey

Bonnie Trina

She was giving birth to her first child when Bonnie Trina died, All the leaves were out, the trees were full of flowers. She had known the Fiddle all her life, had two years been his bride, But the time had seemed more like a few good hours.

death, child, brith

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

252

Buck Ramsey

Poem Notes

When he was 92, George Hayden told me As a young cowpuncher he roped a black bear Close to where I live. Back then it was out on the plain The closest brush miles north in the river breaks.

poem, notes, ranch

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

254

Buck Ramsey

Names And Callin's

They're always atellin' us who is a cowboy. It's always somebody who ain't. They put our good name on the damndest of fellers -- it passes without a complaint.

cowboy, appearance, reputation

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

256

Buck Ramsey

Untitled

Some cowboy come crossing a big rancher's land He said he just figured he'd misread a brand Well they took loose the calf's and they noosed up his head

rancher, cowboy, calf, brand

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Bingo In The Church Basement

"I-19 - under the I, 19 - 1-19," the Knights of Columbus grand pooh-bah crooned into the mike, his Sinatra-suave mimicry pole-axed by a cross between a Richard Boone and Bogie voice. Zinc

bingo, lose, betting, elderly

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Riding Double - 16 And Beating The Heat

She loved my black Triumph motorcycle, flamed orange and chromed, my Brando jacket, all nine zippers half-unzipped - leather and chest hair her long-nailed fingers prowled like barracuda. Doing 95 through a 92 degree wave,

youth, motorcycle, love

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Hurley High

Though the nuns had dubbed us crusaders in the war against puberty, we gladly lost to testosterone and Pabst Blue Ribbon rumbling in our blood. We sang the dirty version of "Louie Louie" gung ho with elocution

nuns, hormones, teens

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Scars Poetica

Brushed over with arm hair, the nickel-cigar scars I've not told a sober soul about since the sixties, until now, until finding myself hanging by a hemp thread between

scars, bar, biker

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Zarzyski Meets The Copenhagen Angel

Her Levis, so tight I can read the dates on dimes in her hip pocket. Miles City, a rodeo Saturday night.

flirt, dates, bar

Steering With My Knees

Paul Zarzyski

FOLK COLL 11 Z-5

Paul Zarzyski

Riding Double-Wild

She's a motorcycle sister He's a bareback bronco twister They're ridin' double-wild 'cross the West.

motorcycle, fashion, choppers