COWBOYS AND COUPLES<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fisk Park has become part of the river
Part of an old arrangement
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As in those doggerel westerns,
Two sets of hombres, pistols drawn
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Who keep riding their ponies
Past the same outcroppings and knolls
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Or with couples long used to each other\u2026
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You do ramble, she said, biting a corner
Of toast. Just say flood and be done with it
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Happens every year. That\u2019s how big fish
Enter the pond\u2026
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That\u2019s what I meant, he suggested,
Smoothing his mustache with forefinger
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And thumb. Like renewal? she asked,
I don\u2019t believe so, as she answered herself
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After a moment,
More like monotony, the color of bark<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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