Culture Goats.....

One day heat index say... 109,
I was purple hot ,
Rope in hand,
My wife's Big Billy goat had taken a pair of the neighbors "does" down to the " Millcreek Baptist Church",
I guess he was Mormon and wanted a couple more wives,
But there "Billy" met up with his reflection in the church's thick glass doors,
And it was head butt war ! Horn glass door,Door glass Horn...

Enter me and my rope,
Around and around the church we went,
Turning ourselves into
Sambo
Tiger butter,

Then slow, the Impala Chevy, slow riding low, the migrant,or Espanola impersonator,
Espanola, you know the first capital city in America
Eyes dark, lids low, staring always a little too long, his window rolled down and he slowed to comment on my plight,
Billy panting,
Me boots hat rope all...
Wilting,
I heard him say mexican way...
"Goooood Luck",
Mother Mary Lady Guadalupe, I thought as he drove away....
my loop settled around...
The big billies devil horns.

Author's Note

You did not know that about Espanola, Did you ?

Reviews

[Marie Anzalone]

I actually did know about Espanola.

and this piece... I am transported back to a time some 11 years ago riding my little stallion, coming back from a day of veterinary work in the field, when he smelled a half-wild mare in heat and took off after her, leaping rock fences and galloping and bucking a mile with me helpless in the saddle. He jumped up on the back of the mare and she wanted nothing of it, so there I am in a hoof and screaming foot, me screaming as loud as them, when group of Guatemalan sheepherding men come to "rescue" me and prove their point that gals do not belong on horseback. and me? I gelded the stallion that weekend. With my bare hands.

Lord, I can imagine the look in that driver's eye.. that condescending freaking look... and I can feel your frustration at the lack of real help. Hope that billy goat did some good damage before all was completely said and done.

Bet the damned car was air-conditioned too.

[m.s.early]

The narrator takes me to a place where goats are good for milk, cheese, and making soap. If it weren't for the asset value and perhaps the cost of the church door, he may have let the darn thing go! Be off you devilish beast! Ha! But alas, bare the heat and toiling and be the good Shepard and return him to the flock.

I think this is what a poem would have sounded like if eecummings had tried harder to speak in complete sentences.

[rutherford]

I can feel the heat and dust and smell the goat. Great images and effective use of dialogue. Well crafted closing line.

[SHEEMA HUQ]

An interesting set of observations told with your biting flair, very well done, good of you to share

[Tate Morgan]

Get loose on you did they goats have no respect for religious inklings lol Im guessing the owners were Catholics lol they dont like the baptists and mormons

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

haha... with my jaded views on organized religion and all the hypocrites that lead them I found this delightfully humorous.

[Rogue]

This was like a trip through a cow town fun house. "Wait.. Huh? What are you saying to me, man?"
-grin-
I enjoyed it.

[Tree]

Man, what I would pay to see such a scene. Did it really go down like that? Great clip lee, put a smile on this face. That imagery shall stick with me, for a good while I suspect.

Diego

[lee von cleef]

Yes , but the car ,a marauder ,big like a yellow boat '64, or so... I had just moved here from "Windy" Oklahoma so the heat was invasive, I might of been fat too but in my head I am always thin, you know mirrors lie,saw myself in one at the state fair made me look like Jay Leno. Thanks for keeping up.

[lee von cleef]

Oh , I first heard the goats whereabouts on the radio, then the bus driver ... small town.

[Tree]

lol