Best El Paso Poems

I like El Paso...the heat, the dust, the heat,
I like the cars and the hats the cops wear,
cowboys in a rusty B movie,

but most of...

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A SAGA OF OLD EL PASO
AND LADY B GOOD
There was a famous lady of El Paso in the Old West
She hunted and trapped, trading furs...

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The function of a human hand?
Writing a message, making a bed,
Opening a jar, dialing a phone,
Putting on pantyhose,
Touching the face of a child,
Or a lover.

And...

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The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Como’ Si’ Yama’, Senor’
Como’ Si Yama’, Por Favor’…
… for Below That Embroidered Sombrero’
Shone Eyes Like El Dorado

He Was A Tall and Handsome Hombre’
Like The Range...

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Folks avoid that spooky place 'specially on dark and stormy nights!
Heard are eerie moans and shrieks and seen are mysterious lights!
A driftin' hoss thief by...

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A Dog Story

Back in Old El Paso,
In a bar room they did meet;
Two cowboys decided to have it out,
In the middle of a downtown street.

The...

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my heroes have alway's been cowboys
                   ...

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“ Where is the border?”
              “ Well, not in El Paso, mam!”

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Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

     ...

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We would go to the forgotten towns of west Texas
Places that we couldn’t name and hunt for their souls
Sometime it was on the roadside a...

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Back seat of a '56 Chevy
White with baby blue trim
Cruising out of El Paso town 
Headed to the City of Angels
She’s fast asleep on my...

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I'm in love with Juanita

From El Paso country song ...

Kiss me stronger, senorita,

Make my memories be gone.


To forget the northern beauty,

Who's cold heart is made...

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Satan over the years has been known for tricks and deception
Not only covering up what he is doing, but what he has done
One has to...

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I just can’t leave without saying:
at least bye for now or ‘till we meet again.’
a conventional phrase we always say
to people we’ve met and cared...

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