Reincarnation
a cowboy poem by Wallace McCrae
What is reincarnation, a cowboy asked his friend? His
friend replied,
"well son it's what happens when your life has reached it's
end.
You see, they comb your hair and they wash your neck
and they clean your fingernails,
and they lay you down in a padded box, far away from life's travails.
Now the box and you goes in a hole that's been dug
into the ground,
and reincarnation starts in when you're planted beneath the mound.
You see the box melts down just like the clods, and
you who is inside,
and then you're just beginning on your transformation ride.
Well in a while some rain's gonna come and fall upon
the ground,
'til one day on your lonely little grave, a little flower will
be found.
And say, a hoss shall wander by and graze upon this
flower,
that once was you, but now has become a vegetative bower.
That little flower that the hoss done ate up with all
his other feed,
becomes bone and fat and muscle essential to the steed.
Of course some is consumed that he can't use and so
it passes through and finally it lays there on the ground,
this thing that once was you.
And then say that I should wander by and gaze upon
the ground,
and wonder and ponder on this object that I've found.
Well it sure makes me think of reincarnation, of life
and death and such,
and I ride away concluding Slim you ain't changed all that much!
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