FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
145
Paul Zarzyski
Washed-Up Zarzyski Rides Ol' '65 Maytag to a Sudsy Standstill
Its spin cycle, exactly like my psyche, maniacally out of centrifugal whack, thus triggering this seismological tectonic breakfast plate shift at the epicenter of our house, the kitchen, all-a-tremor in a seven-point-oh-oh
washing machine, injury, soap
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
150
Paul Zarzyski
Not Having Made It as a Writer, On His 55th Birthday The Poete Maudit Turns Himself in to Literary Johnny Law And, While Incu
Trust me, Lieutenant Hugo - I truly do not know where my strumpet Muse goes now when She plays nooky hooky, swooning under the radar on a Tuesday afternoon, rather than her usual Friday or Saturday night soirees, trysts,
pheromones, love, court
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
152
Paul Zarzyski
The Ms. of the Mega-Munitions
She's got a shotgun under the loveseat A Colt .45 in each drawer A derringer tucked in her garter belt Her boudoir is warrior decor.
femme fatale, gun, weapon
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
154
Paul Zarzyski
She-Devil Muse
She pinned her tail on my donkey heart She-played spin-the-bot-le with my liver She bushwhacked me at the "celibate social" She loaded harpoons into Cupid's quiver - She loaded harpoons into Cupid's quiver.
devil, crazy, women
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
156
Paul Zarzyski
Why I Ain't Buying Into The Word "Inspiration"
As heavy-handed as gravity, the magnetic She-force of poems pulls, bullies, baits, solicits me to tag along, to join Her for raw oysters and coitus,
muse, inspiration, violent
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
158
Paul Zarzyski
Burn-Barrel Publishing: To Burn or Not To Burn? That Is The Question!
Just how much big-batch warm corn liquor spilling into my tin-can up straight out of the still's copper coils must I guzzle, must I gulp,
publishing, literature, poetry
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
162
Paul Zarzyski
The Tumbleweed Munchies
After my nemesis, the stiff wind, howls, under cover of darkness, "Charge!" to her spiny urchin army of The Big Dry,
tempura, food, cravings
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
164
Paul Zarzyski
The Heavyweight Champion Pie-Eatin' Cowboy of the West
I just age 50 pies! - started off with coconut macaroon, wedged my way through bar angel chocolate, Marlborough, black walnut and sour cream raisin to confetti-crusted crab apple -
pies, contest, thanksgiving
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
167
Paul Zarzyski
Bizarzyski - Mad Bard and Carpenter Savant of Manchester, Montana - Feeds the Finicky Birds
Unlikely that my poems will ever land in some Norton Anthology of Ornithology, let alone The Guinness Bird Book of World Bon Appetit Records,
birds, feed, salami, tofu
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
169
Paul Zarzyski
Sadly - Oh-so-sadly - I Have to Explain The Sopranos to Someone Who Just Does Not Capice
...you got it yet, goomba? I'm Eye-talian. And what we Eye-talians do, see, besides communion with the one and only true God, who also just so happens to be Eye-talian - "Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord?"
italian, culture, accent
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
170
Paul Zarzyski
ANTIPASTO!
The tongue loves ANTIPASTO! The linguini way each button-mushroom syllable - gold
pasta, toppings, dinner
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
171
Paul Zarzyski
Potatoes
Unless they've been clandestinely launched whole into orbit as a satellite welcome wagon gunnysack toward alien good will
potato, drunk, breeding
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
176
Paul Zarzyski
Telemarketer Malediction
Even your own mother would opt for obscene collect phone calls from her parish priest over hearing from you.
phone call, advertising, dispicable
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
178
Paul Zarzyski
Zarzyski Cures the Burning of His Bro, Zozobra, "Old Man Gloom"
With his red-hot grimace of teeth glowing like a blast furnace grate, with lunacy blazing in his pizza-pan pupils,
disaster, burn, fire
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
180
Paul Zarzyski
The Coldest Place I've Ever Been
Do not let the palm trees fool you. Sacramento merely looks more tropical than Great Falls, Montana in late November where it snows horizontally out of the north
cold, travel, freezing
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
182
Paul Zarzyski
Feeding Horses in Richard Hugo's Fishing Parka
An easy swim-stroke every morning, every evening, I float into the great big man's coat, the thermometer some days burning-out at minus 50,
horses, freezing, ice
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
183
Paul Zarzyski
"...So Just How Do You Stand The Vicious Winters?"
The forecasters swore on their weather balloons swore in serious rhyme - "heavy and steady so better get ready" - swore the behemoth storm out of the north was freight-training its way,
winter, freezing, bundling
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
188
Paul Zarzyski
Smart Mouth - Mandibular Prognathism
Novocain turning my face to stone, I learn it"s my last remaining wisdom tooth Doctor Olsen is crowning in porcelain
dentist, surgery, mouth
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
190
Paul Zarzyski
Birthday Virtue-of-Defiance Ritual After 60
I drop my cosmic drawers to moon all of the dark heinous forces
birthday, drinking, aged
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
191
Paul Zarzyski
Zarzyski Stars in Football Zombie Apocalypse Now
Smelling of mothballs and mildewed youth, of gridiron glory days buried alive. I -
football, zombie, midget
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
194
Paul Zarzyski
Turkey Buzzards Circling Nirvana
I'm fed up burying all my dead friends never quite friend enough to haul my carcass off.
death, funeral, ashes
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
196
Paul Zarzyski
Short-But-Not-Too-Sweet Eulogy To And From, The Rockin' Double Z Barwhiskey Bizarzyski Czarzyski
Worshiped words Spurred broncs Incited friends Indicated God/
eulogy, ranch, drink
Call of the Cow Country
Harry Webb
FOLK COLL 11 W-40
Harry Webb
True Stories by bronc buster Harry Webb: Cowboys, Indians, Outlaws, Will James, Butch Cassidy, Buffalo Bill, Mustang, Coyotes
n/a
short stories, essays, true stories
Prints of the West
Ron Tyler
FOLK COLL 11 T-20
n/a
Various
Prints of the West
n/a
prints, paintings, history
The Devil and Call McCabe
Thomas Saunders
FOLK COLL 11 S-73
n/a
Thomas Saunders
The Tale of the Cowman's Corns
They tell a tale in the cow country Of the days when the range was wide and free, Before men reckoned the consequence Of a five-bar gate or a barbed-wire fence,
prose, novel, cowboy