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"TV westerns and their songs captivated us," 
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Western Days
by Kathy Gilbert

TV westerns and their songs captivated us, children of the 1950’s
 
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans & Trigger                       Happy trails to you
 
Davy Crockett                                                   King of the Wild Frontier
 
Wyatt Earp                                                     Brave, Courageous and Bold
 
           
                                 Annie Oakley and her six shooter
Bonanza, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Hopalong Cassidy, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman
                                  Zorro, The Lone Ranger & Tonto
 
 
 
A decade later getting closer to manifest
 
                                        we learned reality        Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
 
                 Colonialization’s brutality
 
                                             theft at the continent’s ledge
 
Left few non-indigenous witnesses
 
                                             beside the hawk and the sedge
 
 
     Later we’d see with the help of first peoples a new destiny:
 
                    Russell Banks, AIM, Alcatraz’ Occupation
 
                                                Land Back 

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​​Kathy Gilbert received her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2013 after a career in public transport. She received the Mark Linenthal Poetry Award in 2012 from SFSU and won the San Francisco Browning Society Gita Specker Award three times for her dramatic monologues. She was commissioned to write a play for the 2015 San Francisco Olympians Festival. Her one act Delphin and the Children of Amphitrite was performed at the Exit Theater. She also tutors third graders, studies tai chi, practices yoga and swims. Her new book Aprils Three: Poems and Photographs is now available locally at Bird & Beckett, West Portal Books, Green Apple on Clement and on Amazon. 

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