Side Trail
Have You Read the Cowboy Book Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer
Tom Sheehan
Have you read Monte Walsh, a book by Jack Schaefer?
Friend Frank Welton did, by the fireside and camp light,
in the Tumble Inn Diner amid coffee and egg sandwiches
on bulkie rolls with the twin yolks still unbroken, on the
Southeast Expressway as an accident tied up traffic for
hours atop prayers, at lunch, at ease, at noon, the day
almost cut in half, the highlighter flashing on the pages
like a sword in the heart of the Yucatan, in a parking lot
Filene’s once owned now a late Wal-Mart acquisition,
at reach of his morning hand beside his Saturday bed,
then he gave me that battered, worn, uplifting volume
where ink had disappeared right off the pages, friend
Frank who has ridden right into that cowboy sunset.
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