I WANNA BE

When I was a wee little girl

My burning passion was to  get up at the crack of dawn

run ouside through the squeeky screen door

jump upon the upturned zink tub

to tap dance and sing as loudly as I might

"I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart."

When I got a wee bit older I walked by myself four miles

upon the main boulevard

to the opening of a new bank

to

see

Roy Rogers!

Upon the wall of my very red bathroom

hangs a poster

of the beautiful women of the wild west

roping cattle

from the Gene Autrey Western Heritage Museum

My favorite place is Taos, New Mexico

and

Hans Christian Andersen's

homeland of Denmark

I also love to sing "On the Good Ship lollipop"

I played hit it you get it

with the boys on the playground and WON their marbles

Now, I will tell you for sure:

I have NO idea what all of this means.

And the best/worst of me is that I own a pair of red and green Ralph Lauren Cowboy boots

I wear these every Christmas with dresses to parties

and my very best friend fought me for these and lost.

One more thing

I got my most prized possession

my first library card when I was four years old. . . then

I learned how to use a computer in the early eighties

because our new library no longer had a card catalogue.

AND I own a Kindle