the code of the cowboy "Monday Writing Essential"

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I reassure thee no cowboy you see

has a narrow minded orthodoxy.

Though I am a bit of a zealot

when it comes to the climate.

As a cowboy,

please allow me to give ya the jist

why I'm a cowboy environmentalist.

You will not e'r see

one more embedded in ecology

than yer cowboy.

He's right there at the front;

he takes the full brunt

of every climate calamity

projected to increase in frequency,

our cowboy.

I get a bit put out

with more floods, fires, and droughts

as humanity thoughtlessly passes

e'r more greenhouse gases.

While a cowboy

 

lives and breathes liberty,

he also faces reality.

He's got to face facts

that he's not gonna last

with standards that are lax.

 

Knows our cowboy,

the tyrant stalking you,

physical principles shown true

in repeatable experiments fun,

climate change being one.

 

The code of the cowboy,

Live and let live,

a fair rule to the game.

Live and let die?

Leaves an old cowboy ashamed

 

of the whole human race.

 

While some cowboys yer sent

can be intransigent,

and not be the first one to jump

up to help ya clean up the joint,

but then what'd be the point

 

in a world without cowboys?

 

Our cowboy can be

his own worst enemy,

but when things get bad,

the best friend ya e'r had

 

is our cowboy.

Though not one of those

who lives to chastise foes,

not a dictator, not the police,

I give you stern notice:

 

This cowboy loves you.

 

Love ya fiercely I do,

I will not stand by while you

let city slickers through

slick talk buy cheap off a you

 

the family fortune.

 

Whether you don't like it or do,

this ole cowboy loves you.

 

Yeah, this ole cowboy loves you ew ew ew ew

 

and there aint nothin you can do about it.

 

 

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the code of the cowboy

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