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Cowboy Poetry With
Baxter Black
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Life is a Compromise |
by Baxter Black |
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The tell me Wally is smokin' again.
But life is a compromise.
He's tried to kill himself so many ways,
The heart was not a surprise.
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I guess he's lucky they found him in time.
Was close, as I understand.
Pickups on dirt roads at breakneck speed,
Would'a killed a lesser man.
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The nurses said he was pleasant at times...
When he was anesthetized.
But alas, he relapsed back to normal,
His arteries revulcanized.
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It was awful to watch his recovery,
His forced marches down by the wood.
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Striding along in his tennis and
He's quit eating everything good.
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Begrudgingly he's getting' better.
Got horseback, but some things have changed.
He's growin' a beard and he's writing
His memoirs out on the range.
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He's givin' the kids a little more slack,
At runnin' the home ranch outfit.
Of course, they threatened to leave him next time,
If he didn't back off a bit.
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So he's still the biggest buck in the herd
And goes around leavin' his scrape,
And buglin' some...But he's careful now
'Bout who he gets bent outta shape.
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So, the fact I hear that he's smokin' again
Is sort of what I would expect.
With his rebuilt heart he's prob'ly deduced
There's not much left to protect.
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I asked if his doctors agreed with his scheme
He said, "Nope, their warnings were stern,
Said sooner or later they'd see him again...
But they wouldn't be near as concerned."
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Baxter Black, was born in 1945 in a Brooklyn Naval Hospital, NY, as his dad was in the Navy. Baxter likes to say his birthday is on the second Friday of each January. He grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico and rode bulls in high school and college. As Baxter tells it, he spent most of his working life in the mountains west tormenting cows. Black now lives in Arizona and travels the country tormenting cowboys. He was trained as a large-animal veterinarian at New Mexico State University and Colorado State University, graduating in 1969. His first column was published in July 1980 in the Record Stockman , Denver, Colorado. Baxter explains: "The last company where I was working as a tech veterinarian changed hands and let me go. I was doing speaking on the side and people just kept calling, so here I am." |
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Since then, he has published over a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and commentary. He is a regular commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and also hosts a syndicated weekly radio program, Baxter Black on Monday, and writes a syndicated weekly DAILY NEWSpaper column, "On the Edge of Common Sense." He also hosts a program on RFD-TV. |
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Baxter Black can shoe a horse, string a barbed wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat top guitar. |
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Copyright © 2008 All rights reserved. The above article is the property of the Author and may not be duplicated or redistributed in any way without permission. |
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