From the Library of Congress

Cowboy boots are pushing the gas of a very new car,

The Stetson hat is on the driver,

A young woman at his side

In blue jeans,

sporting Navajo jewelry,

Across Navajo desert scenes.

There is a Hopi ritual

It is going on and on and on and on and on

See what I mean?

Out on the mesa

Every once in a while

She adjusts the volume

She changes the tone

She changes her style

And the music should respond.

The whole thing is actually

the sound track

of one those old Hopi Rain dances.

From the Library of Congress

What a weird and wonderful ethnographic contract.

I can see it in my mind’s eye.

I do not know if those old films are public property

I do not know if they belong in the public domain

That arrive with summer rain

Apache rituals around fires could

Certainly do the trick.

This touches the teenager in me that

Given half the chance

As a young smartass

I would have dumped my guitar

in a second hand car

Heading south to Texas.