MAN, I LOVE THIS DESERT

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Stardust8937

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: the Mohave desert,of Southern California

MAN, I LOVE THIS DESERT (another poem by Stardust 9-6-10)

I like to think of myself

as an old grizzled

desert cowboy--

Riding a pregnant Pinto mare

into the brushland,

the wasteland--

where no one with a lick of sense

would ever go--

especially in the middle of August...

A place of tangled mesquite

and creosote,

and scorpions almost large

enough to saddle and ride--

Almost a place where time forgot--

with NO one but my horse and me

for miles around...

But then, I've always had

a larger than life

sense of myself.

An overblown ego

needing most of the time to simply

get over myself.

I've never even owned a horse--

Hell, I grew up a rich kid

mostly in Connecticut.

But what the heck my friends,

in my mind,

it's been a good ride.

The sun scorched my brain a bit,

and some people fired a few slugs

over my head--

but all in all,

I did what I always do the best.

THAT'S always been

to keep the fire burning,

to stir the pot,

to tell my stories,

and to keep the beans from burning...