WE ARE COWBOYS

THEY DUMB US DOWN TO BULLRIDERS AND VIOLENCE

STUBBORNLY OLD-FASHIONED, FOCUSED ON A SELF-IMPOSED SURVIVAL.

I DON'T WANT TO RUN OUT OF REASON AND BE THE BURDEN OF PEOPLE'S MISCONCEPTIONS

SYNONYMOUS WITH THIS ROMANTICIZED, RUGGED

MASCULINE IDEAL OF TEXAS

TO DRAW AN AMERICANA CROWD

AND UNFLATTERING PORTRAYALS

FADED INTO TOURIST TRAP PRIDE.

TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD IS THE SAME AS DYING

SEEN AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT, LIKE

A LATE CELEBRATION FOR THE SIX-FEET UNDER

COMPRISED OF WHAT WE ARE REMEMBERED AS

AND NEVER WHAT WE WERE.

I MAY NOT DESERVE AN ENDING THAT RIDES INTO THE SUNSET

BUT I KNOW I DO NOT DESERVE THIS

SO COME ON, BIG HOSS, WATCH YOUR WESTERNS AND FOOTBALL HAIL MARY'S

TELL YOUR SON TO BE A MAN THEN SCOLD HIM WHEN HE TURNS OUT LIKE ME.