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Talking Horse (---The poet who reads his/her work aloud risks comparison to a talking horse.) Come round tonight, the talking horse read poetry at the local pub, recite with sweet neighing tones and lucid prose style trumpet down his long-nose eternal verities that only a horse knows. Firm he stand beneath forefeet and hind feet tail swishing to the meter as he munches oats from his feeder. Pleasure to hear his voice quarrel the droll charmed inflection compel and cast at full gallop along the meadow of his words, and upon the ear cast a spell. Please allow me to mention, the talking horse remarkable talent for poetic invention. How he expel all manner of convention. He does not stand on formality, whinnies at the outmoded apparatus of long-standing poetic tradition. The species of talking horse, long head bony given to poetic musing, prevalent in pubs and cafes spotted roan, sheltie, quarter horse, cow pony --- the horse read aloud, neighing, snort, bare high-crowned teeth and make hay of their wordplaying. Though a majority of horses write in obscurity the talking horses has increased. One sees the equine beast in bookstores, signing their books of verse. Talking horses are not as rare as they used to be. Ernest Slyman HomePage www.geocities.com/soho/7514 email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%