Poor Aim at High Moon at the Bar PP Bar by FF It amazes me that cowboys can shoot the head off a rattler at 30 feet with a single action Colt But miss a 2 foot porcelain target standing 2 foot away when to the toilet they bolt Once taking a stance 2 feet above the porcelain throne flushing for sanitation They miss the bowl and blast the back of the seat, it defies the imagination When women suggest perhaps changing their stance and with 2 hands they shoot They become incensed, the blame game starts, and their denial is such a hoot Their excuse explores being unsteady, drowsy, and half asleep at night Suggestions that since darkness impairs, they just sit down, causes a fight The shared flush toilet in a bunkhouse situation certainly is one of concern In the days of outhouses ranch women would strike a match and watch er burn Problem solved, but these days burning a bunk bragging an indoor john Just because of poor cowboy aim, would lead to arrest and posting a bond Remembering the cowboys' resolve from past days at one bunk one fall The cowboys went outside and peed against the tool shed wall No one thought of turning and facing the moon instead of soaking the wood Memories of the smell in the hot sun I wish I would forget, I wish I could Memories of the boss lady as she berated and demanded they replace board and bat She said they had less manners than a billy goat in rut and the smell of pack rat She made a vow to hire all women for the next spring through fall season No one even the boss man, the head honcho, dared question her reason She went on about replacing their caps, hats, and boots with fishermen's slicker Sending them to gut fish on a boat in Taiwan, no one dared snicker Since they loved the smell of dead fish and lacked the courage to face the moon They should all be stripped of their cowboy title and gut fish at high noon As Sue and I assisted the boss man readying for haying as the boys stood trial He confessed to me and Sue with our promise of silence, he wasn’t in denial Years ago he was on trial and since then for both 1 and 2 had assumed a sitting position These are the facts from that day at the Bar PP Bar, its real name I forget with deliberate omission