With the Cowboy Gathering riding back into town The Telegraph asked: “people to give us their best cowboy poetry?”

Garett Dickinson

“A cold nor’easter wind, my Pabst can is empty, I howl at the moon like a Res dog.”


  Sam Redman

“Who’s gonna take care of my feet while I tend the sheep this trench foots really got a hold on me.”


Jack

“I’m gonna get drunk and rob a train.”

Luke Ragle

“Foosball at the Ranch

always the right time to play modern day cowboy.”



Preston Parrott

“Tight fittin’ jeans make me mean, that’s why I punch doggies and love livin’ free.”

 

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