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 Last night
Logan Calhoun did a little
Fire Dance out on the
Western Prairie. Someone may have seen the
Prairie Smoke like
Whirling Butterflies against the
Big Sky at Sundown, but he doubted anyone could see him, so he thought “what the hey.” No cowboy would do that unless he’d had too much
Moonshine, but you could say that Logan was just plain love sick.
 He should have been scared out there in
Doone Valley, where the
Firewitch and
Cobweb Spiderworts haunt cowboy camps at night. Not even an
Apache Plume in the shadows, or a
Cheyenne yip in the
Bear Grass could have shaken Logan’s one-track mind.
 Waking to the
Morning Mist,
Logan put out his
Comanche Campfire, and set out into the
Desert Sunrise on his horse,
Buckweat. He had a mission that morning, and that mission was going to take him over the
Wichita Mountains towards
Amethyst Falls.
 Logan took a deep breath. His love, he thought, was like a
Blazing Star that disappears with the
Big Sky Sunrise—always there, whether you could see it or not. He was a deep thinker, and he just could not stop thinking about
Perky Sue.
 Does love feel this way for everyone? Logan was pondering again. Take Marshall
Mitcham Gray, for example. Did he have these feelings for his wife
Sharon Roberts? What about Mayor
Jacob Kline—does he still love
Susanna Mitchell? Oh,
Shanandoah, it's far I wander...
Logan had never been so
Gladiolus in his whole life as that
May Night he danced with Perky Sue. Her hair was the color of
Oranges and Lemons. Her lips, of
Black Cherries. She smelled like a
Pink Cloud of Apple Blossom Grass. She was as pure as
Fragrant Snowflakes on
Purple Prairie Clover. She was a woman of
Timeless Beauty, and fifty
Redbirds in a Tree could not sound as beautiful as the two words he wanted to hear from
Perky Sue tomorrow at
Four O ’clock in front of
Father Hugo.-- by Kerry Kirkpatrick
The characters in this parody are fictitious and bear no resemblance to the actual people these plants may have been named after.
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