Best Dismount Poems

my husband and I used to argue
weeks after a verbal agreement should have been over
we were silly about it
heckling and harassing each other
over things that do not matter
ridiculously egging and goading

my husband told me a story about a soldier
the soldier kept beating his horse after...

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My husband and I know how to stop an argument
One of us says
The horse is dead
Dismount

This immediately stops the argument
because if the horse is dead
what good will yelling at it, hitting it, and kicking it do?
This has worked for us for fifty years

If you live...

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Dismount, the horse is dead I say.
He keeps blathering on,
Saying things to bring me down
Tries to lasso me with negativity
Annoyed that I have retained my idealism
Angry at my optimism
Wanting to smear my joy on the floor of the barn.
I smell the hay and the manure
Still...

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