Multi-Tool

The old-time cowboys were always shown with bandanas. These bright pieces of fabric that they wore around their necks, sometimes we'd call them wild rags. Turns out those bandanas had a lot of different uses. Now in the coronavirus era, we find they might even have some uses today. This poem is called, Multi-Tool.

In the days of the Old West if you would look and check,

you'd find a cowboy would wear a bandana around his neck.

It was sometimes called a wild rag for bright color that it brings.

It was a big piece of fabric, the cowboy used for many things.

It was used to mop your forehead when the temperature was hot,

or tie up a bandage from an injury you got.

It could filter out your water when you drank it from a tank,

or cover up the bad guys face if he went to rob a bank.

It might repair your saddle when somehow you're rig and bust,

or it might protect your breathing when you're riding through the dust.

It could serve as a towel when you went to wash your face,

or to blindfold wild horse if that needs to be the case.

If you have a busted arm it could be a handy sling,

or in a pinch roping calves, it could be a pig and string.

You could wrap it on your head when the temperature was cold

or grab a skillet or a branding iron that was too hot to hold.

So it seems that old bandana could do anything you ask,

but who'd have guessed that someday it would be a COVID mask.

Happy trails.