Robots Like

my posts.  Do you also travel
the road to the burnt places
on horseback no use
riding riding to tell them
a sanity nobody would commit--

opportunity robots.  Rise up!  Stop the mouse.
Expose shadows under the brush
moving along getting along.

Mineral

Let's settle it with a round of horse shoes.
Let's see who wins the iron round in the dust
remembering the short pitch and the long
forgetting metal fencing barbed wire barbecue
is on the menu at this time please pass the catsup.
The wind is picking up out in lonelyland.
If I had it I would bottle it and sell it sell it good
even to the lowest bidder the squeaky wheel
squeaking on into town a town called Burns.

All Roads Lead To Burns

Road rage at the refuge
giving the birds
the BLM
the birdy

they deserve
all roads leading
there
I'm afraid

Snack Attack

We had our mean snacks
Shot a few mean cans
While waiting we snoozed out
The regular snobs
A glamorized feed lot
Where the gd birds
had their say long enuf

I mean a man is free to take a snack
now and then plus plan attacks

I mean we had planned for this
elbowing birds away way back

Belongings

There are ways to settle in the west
just by being at the right place
time They say they have the right
Only they allow It is not like we are
bad guys we are mean machinery
proud of bulldozing history

So this land is ours for the taking
just because we are sick and tired
someone telling us where to graze
where not to graze our livelihood
We lose a few in this war that way
the people know just who we're
dealing with Indeed our trucks
getting us around Where we
need to be where we belong

Irrigon Yellow. Umatilla Blue.

bending the color of highway

shoulders and dotted yellow lines

When I drive past Richland

I remember that summer

on the reservation 

searching the alfalfa

watery business

poem wheels turning

Meat Keepers

There's water at the refuge!  It is
within and without the refuge.  A
future in water is waiting for the meat.
Water is for meaty developments
and for watering the meat.  Keepers
of the meat and its meaty flame.