Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #19 — page 39: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains a poem by Paul Desprez, not a political cartoon. It's a narrative poem about a cowboy and his female companion named Lasca, who rides a mouse-grey mustang. The speaker romanticizes frontier life—preferring action, danger, and open-air freedom to urban conformity ("write reviews," "carry umbrellas," "keep dry shoes"). The poem describes a cattle stampede triggered by a sudden storm. The couple flees on horseback, with Lasca clinging to the narrator as they race ahead of the stampeding herd. The piece celebrates Wild West adventure and romantic companionship amid natural danger—typical early-20th-century American frontier nostalgia literature rather than satire or political commentary.