The Old West

Potent Trees burned and filled my filthy, dark bed-room with thick smoke & I was inspired by the historically inaccurate movie 'Wyatt Earp', the pretentious version w/ that Jerk Chicken Kevin Costner

The Old West

 -- A Kazinsky Quick-Rhyme --

More than one hundred and fifty years ago,

Buffalo Bison roamed through the West.

For years in History, time moved slowly

and the dumb beasts could not know what came next.

A future of despair where

the insanity inherent of humanity 

seems to be reflex.

This is a past where killers, and men who would be killers,

strapped six-guns to their bodies and 

sometimes gold stars on their chests.

The dust clogged air of small shanty towns with dirt roads

smelled of strong whiskey and paid for sex,

along with the aromatic stench 

of horse manure and decomposing human flesh

of rough and filthy men who discovered too late

that with a six-shooter they were not the best......

and they also forgot that this planet Earth

happens to not be our permanent residence

but rather the home of Mother Nature, who is forever, 

while us humans are insignificant and mostly rude guests.

Indeed.

Andrew N. Farrens

West Stockton, California

July 11, 2013

18:45

Author's Note

It is what it is and I do not know exactly what it might be, other than random rhymes I enjoyed writing, which I suppose makes it right.......A/N/F

Reviews

[Angi]

First of all, 'that Jerk Chicken Kevin Costner' had me grinnin'! This a wonderful Old West piece. I am very fond of this subject. You did it justice. Angi~

[Renée]

I would say they were more eco friendly, than we are now a days...

[Dayran]

A love for the earth that's reflected on the ways of the old west. I think you would grant that they were pioneering ...

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A telling and highly entertaining piece, well done.

[Mark]

The Old West is a favorite subject. Good to read you again my friend