Eastern Western

The feet of the dance hall girls shuffle

As they can can off the dusty stage

Bending to toss their red garters

Souvenirs of a paradise

That’s always a border away

Wagon wheels turn and return

Scoring blank desert and white skull

Crossing bridges of burning tumbleweed

And rivers of stampeding cattle as

The cobwebbed posse rounds up strays

At high noon

The Buddha of the future

Steps off the rebirth train