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We write a lot of
poems about cowboys.

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This one's called Aliso
Springs, which is south of town

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in the Tumacacori Mountains.

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"When the cowboys come
down to drink there,

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their hands turn
blue in the water.

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Behind them, their curious
horses melt into windows patch

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by patch, and blow away
paper bags into the thorns.

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Oh, for years they are
perched on the treeless peaks,

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in cabins like wrecked
violins, watching the cattle

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below stumble over the worn
hills, laying down their horns,

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mad to the knees.

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And beyond, on their chests,
the squares of the pecan groves.

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Girls playing trumpets
once a year, raving green.

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And so they come,
letting themselves down

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by their belts over
the rock faces.

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Jumping in their spurs
from cliff to cliff.

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To kneel in the swampy place
of grubs, and dead skunks,

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and sycamore leaves, and
watch their heel prints

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fill behind them.

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To lift to their eyes the
sliding clouds of their faces."

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