Steel Notes Magazine
Johnny's Junction
MAMA I GREW UP
TO BE A COWBOY
I always dreamed of being a cowboy since I was a young lad growing
up in Atlanta Georgia. I would watch all my favorite westerns and
then I would sink into my cowboy mode and dress up in my finest
cowboy outfit the best I could. We were poor so I didn’t own a horse.
I took the finest broom we had and that was my horse. I would gallop
that broom all over the neighborhood until we were both worn and
tired. I would dip my horse in mud puddles and stoop down and
drink some of that murky water right alongside my pardner. I would
later get spanked with that same broom for ruining it. I went through
a few fine horses and butt whoopings for the next few years of my
young life. It all ended when I got tired of the butt whoopings. I still
love a good cowboy movie now and then, Tombstone is now my all
time favorite right up there with John Wayne’s True Grit. Forty five
years later and my dream came true. I am a cowboy. Well not really
per se, I just got lucky enough to play a cowboy posse in a movie
produced by my good friend John Pocino. I met John a couple of
years ago through a mutual Facebook friend. John is a great writer
and a fine producer. I often followed his post’s and one day he posted
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