Catch An Appaloosa Poem by Jim Boone

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Gregory Peck did and taught me early on
that the worst part of getting thrown
is laying there
just laying there.

It's a Big Country
and I've already seen
what squatting on just a piece of it
can do to lull a sleeping mind.

So far, mine is all mixed up
even if I'm living in the fabulous fifties
and all that heavy breathing
he and Charleton did
while bringing a feud to its knees
didn't help a bit
until it ended with, 'Now tell me,
what did we prove? '

Greg said it
and with a voice like that
I bought it,
'I'm not responsible for what people think,
just for what I do, and why.'

Those folks in that movie would bait
and double-dog dare him
but he would just walk away
because he didn't have to prove anything
to anyone, but himself.

Wonder how I let that lesson
pass right over?

Must have been Carol Baker
acting like such a fool
or Jean Simmons representing
such good Texas stock
or maybe wanting to ride
that Appaloosa
I don't know
I just don't know.
1965


1955 / 1967

1955 / 1967