LIBBY STUTZ BISHOP
(1932-- )
Show Horse Trainer; Interior Designer; Historical Costume Designer
Poet with six self-published books of poetry
San Antonio, Texas



HELL AND HIGH WATER

The Devil came to Texas
looking for a place
to expand his operations.
He was running out of space.

Seems all the souls St. Peter
had refused and sent below
were getting much too crowded.
Satan needed room to grow.

He'd heard about a land out west
where wild Indians had been.
Everything scratched or bit or stung.
It sounded good to him!

So he climbed the ladder out of Hell
and looked around amazed.
He'd surfaced in West Texas
where the Longhorn cattle grazed.

He saw the Pecos River
rushing onward to the south
and sidestepped to miss a Diamondback
with venom in its mouth.

The cactus spikes reached out to snag
and tear his robe of red.
Tarantulas crawled and fire ants swarmed
and everything else looked dead!

Then suddenly he had a thought
and gave out with a yell:
"I'll move the whole darned set-up here.
This place is worse than Hell!"

 
 
 
 

Libby Stutz Bishop