Desperate Loner

When I was a kid,
it was easy to be like Eastwood,
a dangerous loner on the trail,
No one to stop my aimless drifting.
When life seems more real than dangerous
faces more mundane than bad,
It's easy to be what only Eastwood
could understand, off in search of some dusty trail
to die somewhere, a desperate loner.

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