Did Saloons Really Have Those Swinging Doors? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Did Saloons Really Have Those Swinging Doors?

 

I’d like to mosey down to the Long Branch Saloon

In glorious CBS monochrome

Along Dodge City’s sound-stage cow town street

And saunter through those familiar swinging doors

 

I’d like to order a beer from good ol’ Sam

And listen to Doc and Festus fussing at each other

While Matt and Kitty smile contentedly

And for a while we are all at peace

 

I’d like to mosey down to the Long Branch Saloon

That’s what I’d like, and leave the world tethered outside