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Cowboy Poetry With
Baxter Black
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The Rancher and The Banker |
by Baxter Black |
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The rancher sat across the desk
applying for a loan.
He'd never borrowed cash before,
he'd made it on his own.
But times were hard, as he explained
and if they only could,
He'd like to borrow twenty grand.
The banker understood.
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"That doesn't sound unreasonable,
although it's quite a lot.
Your cows can be collateral.
How many cows you got?"
"Two hundred head," the rancher said,
"That's give or take a few."
"Well, that's enough," the banker said,
"Of course there's interest due."
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In three months time the rancher came
and paid the loan in full
But in his poke he had some left
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that was expendable.
"Why don't you leave that cash with me,"
the banker said, content,
"You put your money in my bank
I'll pay ya eight percent."
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The rancher paused, "Now let me see...
you gave me twenty grand
And then I paid you extra back
for lendin' me a hand.
Now I give you this pile of cash
and you pay me this time
The extry that I done forked out,
at slightly over prime?
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The banker nodded hopefully
and lit himself a smoke.
The rancher seemed to cogitate
and then he finally spoke .
"I ain't too good at high finance...
you've put me on the spot
But fair is fair, so tell me, sir,
how many cows you got?"
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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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