Texas Overture
Wild flowers gravel pit towers
Pecan-smoke two meat barbecue
Shotgun shack by the roadside
Blacktop Texas is everything that it will be.

Loop road tornados hand grown tomatos
Post Office Lady Flatonia Next Right
Two horses nodding at a leafless tree
Waiting in vain to be taken from the rain.

Black Sky crow walking on the road
Pine Forest Cablevision Apartment Now Leasing
Pop-a-Top Beverage And Bait Barn
Fireworks! Buy One Get Five Free.

Texas is the land of the free.

Kreuz's is the king on the Lockhart rail line
Hall full of trestle tables
Fat soaked butcher paper
beans sauerkraut soda pop beer.

Rough paper hand towels
In a roll on a stick
Sitting upright
On every table in the joint.

Water fountain
Bags of chips
German tata salad
jalapenos in a brown bowl.

Fires in the pit have never been put out
Old Texas lady slicing beef brisket
Faded floral print dress
Covered by an apron.

Is that enough? she says
She knows
No I say
More please.

Butcher paper
One knife no fork
White bread
Vegetarians Exit Now Please.

Texas is the Land of the Free

No Teeth Barbecue
Rockdale Texas
Man in the window watching crop dusters next door
If I lived in Hutto I'd nearly be home now.

Out among the farm roads
Heading for the county line
Looking for the water towers
Bringing in the sheaves.

Texas is the land of the free.

Thelma's in Houston
Closed on Sundays
Best catfish
In all the state of Texas.

Meat's pulled from the pit
At the stroke of noon
Line grows long at a shack in an urban field
Sitting in the shadows of the chrome.

Man in a big hat
Born into a black suit
Says Pass a menu
If you would please.

One slab of ribs
One pound any Meat
Whole chicken half chicken
Ham ribs links beef.

Green beans pinto beans
Tata salad cole slaw
Okra dirty rice or yams
Two slices white bread sealed into a ziplock.

Peach sweet potato
Apple Lemon chocolate
Butter pie
Cheese peppers soda or tea.

Texas is the land of the free.

Salt Lick in Driftwood No Beer Family Style
Three meat platter
Bowl of beans slaw tata salad
Onions pickles two slices white bread Texas-style.

Order in order out order online
Order by mail fax toll free anytime
Waitress is a middle age ex-hippie chick
Found her a life in a hill country family schtick.

Honey you will not leave eating only that much
Bottomless refills
More meat more beans
Whole lotta slaw please.

Texas is the land of the free.