Fuck Cowboys and Indians

A poem about a fucked up game

“Cowboys and Indians in England” by theirhistory is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I knew this game as a child

I knew it growing up

It was cops and robbers, but old.

A classic playground and front lawn game in America

I always wanted to be the cowboy, the cop

For one reason

I didn’t want to die

I’m sure you understand

The cowboy always wins, the cop never loses

I was a White child

I knew the cop and the cowboy was the winning side

John Wayne told me so

Ask yourself, when was the last time the cowboy said “okay it’s my turn to die”?

You never had to

No kid did