There Was a Desperado

There ws a desperado from the wild and wooly west. He came into Chicago just to give the west a rest. He wore a big sombrero with two guns strapped 'cross his chest. And everywhere he went he gave his war hoop...

Big and bold was that...desperado. From Cripple Creek way down in...Colorado. He walked a-round just like a...big tornado. And everywhere he went he gave his war hoop...

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Another impossibly overbearing painting--where do they come from? A too-insistent bravado--the daring of making it too abrupt--maybe as an antidote to the muzzy (meuzy)--a quality I always like at first--as if the image could get no more indistinct--but then I look, and look some more, and become unsure of that very indistinctness... Especially at  night, when the light quality changes the values...