Pulled out two and a little piece of flintThe mints were green from a bush he clipped
With the flint he flossed while a buffalo chipped
As the buffalo was chipping, contented was his heart
Till the cavalry came charging down the fairway in a cart
Arnold Palmer waving as Leroy Neiman sketched
a player masked in black like Bishop Tutu in the flesh
The driver in his right hand, the left could count upon it
Edna V. Millay discovered three woods in a sonnet
Tiger, tiger burning bright, a fuzzy form of black,
saw Arnold tell the reddish man to step around in back
where corporations crude, rich Arnold's benefactor,
allowed the mighty chief Cochise to gaze on Arnie's tractor
Cochise sauntered over on his burnished bareback mare
Signaled Mr. Palmer that the fair way's over there
Chief Cochise raised a war cry to the throne of the Unknown,
but Arnold called his caddy, Lac, who answered on the phone
"You are smooth Mr. P, a maize in salt and butter
The gallery explodes when you tip them with your putter"
Well, poor Arnold turned to red while the caddy sang his praise
Especially the line about the butter on the maze
But an iron man was he, speaking for the men of oil
with the system on their side sayin', "Drill sea beds and soil
And, if the earth responds when we puncture her with steelthen the fountains of the deep reward the Palmers with a deal
We'll put Arnie on the TV with a yellow can of gold
He can tell his friends and neighbors all the things he has been told
Old Cochise over there upon his burnished bareback mare
can tee up in the mountains till he masters laissez-faire
We'll give him reservations for the fourth day in July
where his buffalo and Indians can putter while they die, (%)
which you well know Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Nicklaus, too:
The Indians can go to Hell, John Deere is playing through
That bull buffalo on number nine can put away his chipper
We'll mount him in the country club we're building for the Gipper"
©1996 - 2011 g.o.
Cochise and the US Open, Notes:
• On 6/20/96 the Rocky Mountain News reported that Pennzoil sold the Vermijo Ranch (minus mineral rights) to Ted Turner for $103 million. This sale made Turners the biggest land owner in New Mexico. In the pre-American era the 500,000+ acre "ranch" was shared by the Aztecs and Apaches. In contrast to Pennzoil management, the Turner management will raise bison not cattle because (as they said) the future for bison looks more lucrative, E.g....
•(%) while browsing at this fascinating link (in the 8th stanza, above) try a Control-F search on the word: 'exterminate' ( http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportofco187100unitrich/annualreportofco187100unitrich_djvu.txt )
•12/2/2008, Hillsboro, KS Free Press:
"The 'Pathways' project enables us to display important Native American artifacts from our study collection," said Rachel Pannabecker, Kauffman Museum director. In particular, we brought out Sioux items collected by Charles Kauffman[*], for whom our museum is named."
"Through the 'Pathways' project, we want to show our..respect for the resilience of native peoples forced onto reservations in the mid 1800s.."
[ * "Kauffman (1882-1961)..began his Sioux collection in the late 1920s..Collecting items..preserves..American Indian history." ] (italics added)
• More about: American Indians
• Misc character notes, links:
CochiseArnold Palmer
Leroy Neiman
Bishop Tutu 'in the flesh'
Edna V. Millay (who 'discovered three woods in a sonnet')
Arnie's tractor
Cochise (2)
the Unknown
maize
Arnie on the TV with a yellow can of goldlaissez-faire [as in Euro rising..]
Re: 'putter while they die'
'The Indians'
John Deere 'playing through'
'the Gipper'
