You hardly know a day goes by

in the cardboard cutout sundown

the moon popped up like a gallery duck

sipped up gold from the sunny cup

and longhorns sawed the buggy grass

and a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass

and the prarie flowers didn't look a bit queer

and the stars struck the sand cartwheeled

and poked in the prarie

a cactus juice stand the only place

the crows couldn't land

the bluebottle flies were as big

as a cowboy's eyes

and their buzz was as loud as rattlers

a fire engine red whistle blows raspberries

in a cloud of whipped steam

a tungle weed ran out black patent yarn stinkbug hoops

from above a living mail thriving dot

in perfect sympathy

with the cardboard cutout sundown

you hardly know a day goes by

in the cardboard cutout sundown