There's Always A Bolivia Poem by gershon hepner

Butch Cassidy jumps in the water thinking
that there’s no way he ever can be tracked;
he floats on air, deluded, but starts sinking
when posses chase, and try to spoil his act.
We kid ourselves, sun-dancing, when we run
away from hard facts that we hate to face.
But what the hell! So long as we have fun,
why should we run away and face disgrace?
Life is hard if we stick just to locals,
the world lies at our feet so long as we
can look in all directions with bifocals,
Americans who live from sea to shining sea.
When the odds against us are not great,
and chances for success seem daily iffier,
it’s quite illogical to stand and wait
for failure since there’s always a Bolivia.

Inspired by action and dialogue from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”:
Sundance: What's your idea this time?
Butch: Bolivia.
Sundance: What's Bolivia?
Butch: Bolivia. That's a country, stupid.... In Central or South America, one or the other.
Sundance: Why don't we just go to Mexico instead?
Butch: 'Cause all they got in Mexico is sweat and there's too much of that here. Look, if we'd been in business during the California Gold Rush, where would we have gone? California - right?
Sundance: Right.
Butch: So when I say Bolivia, you just think California. You wouldn't believe what they're finding in the ground down there. They're just fallin' into it. Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines, payrolls so heavy we'd strain ourselves stealin' 'em.
Sundance: (chuckling) You just keep thinkin', Butch - that's what you're good at.
Butch: Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals....


8/29/08