<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452481" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Backdropp Addresses Cowboy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Starspangled cowboy <br>sauntering out of the almost-<br>silly West, on your face <br>a porcelain grin, <br>tugging a papier-mache cactus <br>on wheels behind you with a string, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>you are innocent as a bathtub<br>full of bullets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Your righteous eyes, your laconic <br>trigger-fingers<br>people the streets with villains: <br>as you move, the air in front of you <br>blossoms with targets</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>and you leave behind you a heroic <br>trail of desolation: <br>beer bottles <br>slaughtered by the side <br>of the road, bird-<br>skulls bleaching in the sunset.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I ought to be watching<br>from behind a cliff or a cardboard storefront <br>when the shooting starts, hands clasped <br>in admiration, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>but I am elsewhere.<br>Then what about me</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>what about the I <br>confronting you on that border <br>you are always trying to cross? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I am the horizon<br>you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I am also what surrounds you: <br>my brain <br>scattered with your <br>tincans, bones, empty shells, <br>the litter of your invasions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I am the space you desecrate<br>as you pass through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452481" data-title="Backdropp Addresses Cowboy de Margaret Atwood" data-description="Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost- silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus on wheels behind you with a string, you are innocent as a bathtub full of bullets. Your righteous eyes, your laconi..."></div> </div> </div>

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