I heard a man
In cowboy clothes
Singing songs
Of life and love

His dazzling sequins and heartbroken stanzas
Boasted mythical tales
Of peyote drifters, hickory winds
And moon-studded shrines

Shrines in the woods around Waycross
Where the words of Flannery and Faulkner
Still drift through the purple swamps
And offer up penance to the moss at midnight

Shrines in the neon river
Of blinking Broadway lights
And the way Hank’s ghost
Yet graces the Ryman stage every dusk

Shrines deep in the desert
Spiraling up in the smoke
Of the cowboy’s last lament
Toward that great gig in the sky

(His ashes sinking like broken glass
Into a horizon
Illuminated by the City of Angels
One hundred miles to the west)

I heard a man in cowboy clothes
Back in my younger days
He stirred to life an old time sound
Within my homesick soul

A golden cloud wandered in Waycross Georgia,
It wandered lonely in the sunset skies.
And I was there and I was told;
Soon it will rain a drop of gold.

And the cloud it wandered high,
Above Tiger mountain and Miller's cave...
And I was there and I was told;
Soon it will rain a drop of gold.

And such, such was life in Waycross Georgia,
Such was it when soon we were wet,
A honeydew we all drank and ate:
And I was one of the children told;
We all must taste our drop of gold.

~ Bongiswa Khayelihle Gamedze

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