Born A Cowboy

from my upcoming poetry book 'Sweet Summer Star'

I was born a cowboy, I'm sure of this, 

I’m sure when I was taken out at the hospital I was sitting on a little horse a baby sized horse 

and I was the baby on the horse 

and when I was born the doctors and nurses all rushed around my mother to say: 

“please sir? Or sorry, 

mam? 

She’s actually not allowed to smoke in the hospital room.” 

And everyone was coughing on my baby cigarette smoke 

and then I pulled a bottle of Jack Daniel’s out of my mom’s vagina like an afterbirth, 

whiskey afterbirth,

and I poured myself a glass of jack on the rocks to go with my cigarette of course 

and then I rode off into the sunset on my little baby horse

and the doctors and nurses and my real mom and dad

never saw me again.