By chris
Date: 2007 May 25
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Riding the Bull

We watch "Urban Cowboy"
in silence,
a movie that always
disturbs me
on some
existential level -
too many memories of
too many Lone Star
longnecks
tempered
with the knowledge
that for many people on
this very night
this isn't
a movie -
it's their life.

During commercial break
I go outside
for a smoke
and watch the lightning
strikes
off to the northwest -
one, two... -
and listen to the wind
that comes
before rain
make the tall grass
in the back yard
rustle just like
a wild animal
is hiding in it.