Eulogy For a Plow Horse

Divorced and tossed aside the kittens dragged along for a very bumpy ride. You've gained some weight but are sinking. 2 days a week seeing a second hand shrink. They paint so slowly-tell you pretty things for a hundred bucks an hour. You bought a bike -a bright running suit You're on the prowl again. crimson stilettos for stepping out... while game boy is babysitting the kittens. A half dozen ogres later... you decide-the whole scene is a carousel of desperation. Show horses without souls. Snake eyes rattling at three in the morning where did all the plow horses go? Alone isn't so bad, you whisper to yourself You've survived the opaque and glitter love songs dying in the shallows the tide freshens the journey or so they tell you so. You've gained the weight back...and then some but shed the shrinks and learned so much. Your wiser, earning an associate's degree. In living. It's been five years- since you were slung aside... That new age wisdom forgot to mention... To pay more attention to your kittens. You hadn't noticed but while you were chasing show horses. One kitten earned a degree in deep cutting. the other has a PHD in methamphetamines.... and you thought before that your life was a mess... Where did all the plow horses go, you ask? Out making furrows in the corner of yesterday, I guess. .