Protein I now look at twice
Like anyone does ‘The Nice’;
An effective copying of my neighbor:
Glad Ship that finally made it to its harbor.
Creature facing the focused knives
Of stern butchers and their wives
keen on its weekly reduction:
Spiritual weaklings to the seduction.
More fluid snobs during its fire baptism,
Its distancing from water, the magnetism.
On railroads , the first victim of even slow coaches
And often the remembered by he who poaches.
We may only in dreams conjure up a pig
That forgot to be big
Or one freely and gaily
Searching for the pearly…
Rather rudely the snout-wielding-slit-eyed
With the poorest body hygiene it doesn’t hide.
Pecos Bill daddled and skedaddle like molasses.
Sunglasses cuddled, his badass
Stetson buffalo cowboy hat.
Lashes his airish, passive donkie Mis. Do Goglles
as he passes, airin' the lungs.
Sits there like that passin gasses,
at the chanting masses.
Allers among the willows, Pecos bypasses,
poaches the stooges
Dooie and Doodle Doodole's angelicas, n boozes.
Bested by the Sheriff, neat and straight on its feet, no actress;
a rope chafed Pecos neck at the gallows.
3/3/2020
Allers – Always
Among the Willows – Dodging the Law.
Western Slang, Lingo, and Phrases – A Writer’s Guide to the Old West
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-slang/#A
you want to feed
the birds and squirrels
but not the rats and roaches
a little kindness for the cute
but none for those that poaches
we make pets of
cats and dogs
but rarely play with
snakes and frogs
visit the elephants
at the zoo
mind the carnivorous
watching you
don't dance with wolves
or swim with gators
they'll try to eat you
now or later
mind the hornet
and the spider
ones a stinger
the other a bitter
it's just the same
with friends and foes
what they are
nobody knows
spiders, wolves, dogs, rats
ready to stab you in the back
when you least expect it
just like that
night will fall
and they'll attach
without a warning
peep or quack
it's all over
just like that
your money or your life
your girlfriend or your wife
a she devil or a saint
what she did that made you faint
we should causciously
choose our friends
what they are
we won't know till the end
just like the word, friend
the last half of that word
is spelled end
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