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"What does reincarnation mean?"
A cowboy ast his friend.
His pal replied, "It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and wash yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life's travails.
"The box and you goes in a hole
That's been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted 'neath a mound.
Them clods meld down, just like yer box
And you who is inside
And then yore just beginnin' on
Yer transformation ride.
"in a while, the grass'll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now's become
Yer vegetative bower.
"The posey that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed.
But some is left that he can't use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground,
This thing, that once wuz you.
"Then, say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life, and death, and such,
And come away concludin', Slim,
You ain't changed all that much."
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