Poems

Your Picture It’s with your laughing picture that I’m living now, You whose wrists are so slender and crackle at the joints, You who wring your […]

I wouldn’t want to die (Je voudrais pas crever) Before having known The black mexican dogs Who sleep without dreaming The butt-naked monkeys Gobbling up tropics […]

Surprise Party The turntable hacked up a melancholy blues The air was heavy with dust and odors Several zazous danced while holding to their hearts Short […]

The Deserter Mr. President I’m writing you a letter that perhaps you will read If you have the time. I’ve just received my call-up papers to […]

All Dressed Up Things is pickin’ up as most folks knows, So I sent to town fer to git new clo’es. Some onderwear and a big […]

Alone The hills git awful quiet, when you have to camp alone. It’s mighty apt to set a feller thinkin’. You always half way waken when […]

Drinkin’ Water When a feller once comes to a pond or a tank, It is better to ride out a ways from the bank. Fer the […]

Forgotten Yes, he used to be a cow hoss that was young and strong and fleet Now he stands alone, forgotten, in the winter snow and […]

His Old Clothes The chuck wagon trailer had just got his card To attend the spring round up. He stood in the yard And studied a […]

How a Cow Puncher Rode I have often been asked by the people I knowed, To tell ‘em the way that a cow puncher rode. Now […]