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The Gaucho That Googled His Life

A gauche gaucho, a galoot, rawboned and grizzly, rode into a snoring border town. "Google me," he said, as he hitched his mare to a wild hair. The cranky cowhand had gambled on an internet cantina being open but the only horse in town had been gridlocked for hours. Later they found him slumped over a frozen quesadilla. "Poor Bugger." They cooed. "Poor lonely gaucho with his empty man-bag and no mail. Just a gadget for company, an uncharged blackberry. The god-damn humanity."

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Date: 9/7/2019 3:58:00 AM
strangely beguiling piece of writing. to be honest, it's the first of your pieces I read. Picked it because the title intrigued me
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Eric Ashford
Date: 9/7/2019 11:08:00 AM
Thanks Declan, hope you read more. Some of my poems smell a bit, some stink, and some are just okay. Cheers!

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