Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Faction Fortunes

| April 11, 2010

Political parties are a bit like life itself.  When one species succeeds, another might be threatened.  When one faction rises, others must fade.  I’m sure T-Rex ate a lot of dinosaurs that had happily ruled the land before those mobile jaws of death appeared. Not that Ron Paul looks like a T-Rex mind you, but [...]

Coffee Coda

| April 4, 2010

Since I will never finish the follow assault on Keats, I post it here for prosperity and to pique poetry partisans. Ode to a Cup of Coffee Thou still unsipp’d mug of consciousness Thou foster child of puritan work ethic Urban progenitor of unslurred speech A nutty taste more sweet with sugar What bagel fringed [...]

Tax Tonnage

| April 3, 2010

190 pages.  TurboTax cranked out 190 pages of tax forms, schedules and worksheets just for little ‘ole me to satisfy Uncle Sugar and Governor Arnie. 190 pages for one man.  One small rain forest of paper. This is the symbol of socialism (I would say the ‘poster child’ but posters require paper, and I’m fresh [...]