Doug has a couple of books under his belt, and folks who've read them seem to think they are something special.

The first one is called Life! Fun, Hard and Worth It!

In it he writes

My topics are less about lassos and dallies and hackamores and hoolihans and more about a cowboy way of looking at the everyday struggles and events of today's unfortunately more-and-more urban human family.
Here are some short samples from this collection.

I YI YI

An egotist is a guy

Who is all "me and my"—

He'll talk of himself til y'die

And by chance on the street,

Should two of them meet—

It's a case of an I for an I!

A friend and I

Unbeknownst to each other,

Each wrote a book—

So we traded one another.

And it's interesting I find,

How the critical eye is—

He notices a typo in mine

But hadn't the hundred in his.

SCRUTINIZED

Some despise bein' disorganized

And would advise, avoid it.

But whenever I've been disorganized

I've really quite enjoyed it.

O. D.'D

The banker called, "You're overdrawn—

By eighteen dollars, he said.

The end of the month is comin' on,

Can't have you in the red."

"What was my balance last month?" said she.

He answered in just a few . . .

"Let's see, eight hundred and ninety-three."

"And . . . did I call you?"

MOOD

The laughter's off sometimes,

And other times it's on—

Cause cowboy poetry comes in two kinds:

Humorous and non.

It's easy
    to be
        a poet.

You just gotta
         sorta
         kinda
         starta
         thinkin'
         tryin'
         rhymin'
         all the time 'n

You're a poet
'fore you know it.