Country & Western

[Leanne]

I sat down to write a poem
with a country and western feel
that didn’t include redneck bashing
or livestock abuse, or clichéd
blue and battered misery
or – God forbid – a pickup truck
or wrassling steers
or gators
or singing hallelujah
to a TV minister
 
So I came up with this:
 
I like hats

[Quixilated]

Love it, so true!  This made me laugh.    

I do listen to country, it's great driving music, (don't know if Australian country is exactly the same as American country ... mine don't usually "wrassle gators")  but there does seem to be a set five themes they're allowed to be about. Like how much you love your bar with about five verses of ode to beer, and there's always a white t-shirt floating around in there somewhere ... I don't know why it's always a white t-shirt.  I grew up in the country ... people wear other things besides white t-shirts.  Oh and impossibly unlikely women who are somehow, miraculously make-your-knees-buckle hot, but they don't even brush their hair or wear make up, and they are simultaneously spontaneous and wild, but still demure and angelic ... anyway, sorry rambling.  

Especially liked: "blue and battered misery," "God forbid- a pickup truck" and "singing hallelujah to a TV minister."

--Quix

[Leanne]

My dad used to inflict a lot of American country and western on us on long road trips when we were kids. Australian country music is mostly about beer. Sometimes hats. I really do like hats.

[Southern Scarab]

I sat down to write a poem
with a country and western feel
that didn’t include redneck bashing
or livestock abuse, or clichéd
blue and battered misery
or – God forbid – a pickup truck
or wrassling steers
or gators
or singing hallelujah
to a TV minister
 
So I came up with this:
 
I like hats

'Country' and 'Western' only exist on TV, really. Like brown paper grocery bags with baguettes, milk, and leafy carrots in them. Never seen that happen once. What would you make?