The damnedest thing I would see that first day in Gonzales
came as dawn’s light spilled over the music festival grounds,
revealing the countless empty beer cans trampled into the ground
and the couple of dozen hearty partiers still standing
here and there throughout the now relatively calm acreage.
An ol’ cowboy about 50 yards from me teetered
as he expounded on the same subject
he’d worn out his prone partner with,
then suddenly fell straight backward,
his head and straw hat crashing through a Styrofoam ice chest
while his boots flopped into the campfire.
I counted the seconds of his thermal confusion - 7,
not knowing which way to jump,
before he folded at the middle with a yelp
to escape both extremes.
He then found some middle ground
and settled down for the morning.
I took that as a sign to get some shut-eye
for my own self.







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