Country Song

Country song
in a power outage
on a radio that gets one station,
apparently. 

Some young woman sings
that there’s always gonna be another mountain
to climb.  Another uphill battle, another
trouble in the path, another snail underfoot
(yes, I might have that last part wrong,
but it seems to fit…another broken home,
another slowpoke crushed). 

But according to the song,
it’s all gonna be all right, someday. 

I wish I were a country singer,
sincere and hopeful
in the face of pain.

I bet it takes
a tour bus to get there,
gold tooling on my cowboy boots,
a tight butt in the right jeans.

Mostly,
I wish the TV would come back on.