Home, home on the range,
where dream ranch is mine, mine, mine
and editors can’t mess with my head;
where mundane thoughts roam
and publishers have no sway;
where seldom is heard an approbative word,
and my prose is not cloudy for at least part of the day.
(Photo of my sidekick, Cowboy, by our real photographer friend, Allie Murphy. Neither has endorsed this verse).