Cowboy And Dad

cowboy films they were dad's favourite and he did want me to be a cowboy each time giving me that smart pose of john wayne and speaking in his tongue dad's golden years we spent quite a lot of time in the theatres watching nothing but cowboy movies those movies with plenty of gunshots bravemen and cowards a lost child and his gun toting dad i was a mere three foot tall but dad did want me to be a cowboy even then ever enthusiastic in showing me that smart pose with his leather hat that bent upwards tipped at an angle i tried them all gun, imagined horse, and that round little black patch with a rubber strip that i worn over an eye crying in my prebuscent voice 'bang! bang! bang! ' our seating room the battle field a giant and a little cowboys acting out the scenes in the cowboy movies one day neighbour george walked into the house and were caught between in a flurry of bullets to say sorry, we told him he could be the next wayne in our own movie