“Buffalo Bob” Poem by Jack D. Harvey

Buffalo Bob
is ding-dong dead

rode across plains,
chaps flapping
and banged the breeze

six-shooting.

He was purty
perfectly winsome

so he’s gone died
and Charon rows
him home. 

And how don’t Death
in Hades’ barbershop,
combing and combing,
calming and cajoling,
do up for the last roundup
his long blond hair?

Ride ‘em, cowboy, ride ‘em;
from here on out
in this red-hot realm 

you ride nowhere. 

Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Chamber Magazine, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.

The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York. He is retired from doing whatever he was doing before he retired.

His book, Mark the Dwarf is available on Kindle:  https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Dwarf-Jack-D-Harvey-ebook/dp/B019KGW0F2


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