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If Santa Were A Cowbody

A new festive poem

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Ash Raymond James
Dec 17, 2025
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A New Zealand Christmas is summer all the way down.

It is almost Christmas, and if you are a celebrator, then Merry Christmas; if you are not, then I hope you are well. This is a silly poem envisioning Santa as a cowboy that I wrote during the ‘Cowboy Sextape’ sessions. It is fun to read. I read it at a Christmas open mic recently, and people seemed to enjoy it, so here is an exclusive first reading.

If Santa Were A Cowboy

he’d have one trusty steed

who was half dying and fully alive.

Every gift he carried

would smell of pipe tobacco

left smouldering on the nightstand.

He’d ride like a house fire,

comprised of nothing

but heat and warning.

He’d go down chimneys

like a rusty bullet

from a revolver

of his own making.

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