I hope all of you who read this in time, or even after the event, have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving with those around you.

Over the years we have spent the day with friends and family. Now, we have our children here and it seems more like thry are friends and family. I like that.

I’ll get on the ball and get some new horse pictures for you Mad.

By the way, one of the things I am thankful for this year, is all of the kind folks who read this drivel I put on here and are so nice as to comment and let me know they are reading it. Poor, poor suffering people. 😉

Thank you. 🙂

Here’s my latest “turkey”!

Nightmare

You know how you can have a dream?
when maybe you ate too much
some kind of evil spicy food
like tacos’, burrito’s and such

I had one of them kind the other night
it was about the end of time
way, way, way in the future
the world was ugly with grime

a worldwide holocaust had come about
or some other stupid thing
yup, it finally came at last
that damned ol’ nuclear spring

I saw a cowboy ridin’ there
he’s the last of his breed
on the sole surviving cow horse left
the best of their genetic seed

they rode across a wretched landscape
moving at the speed of a snail
searchin’ for the last lingering bovine
the equivalent to Ahabs whale

all at once, in grim finality
by the only cedar tree to remain
that poor ol’ horse dropped dead on the ground
as a coyote called out his refrain

that cowboy sat there all forlorn
with his friend there dead at his side
as that last coyote came sneakin’ up
sniffing at that dead horses hide

the cowboy quietly brushed back a tear
knowing he would soon pass too
the coyote licked his nemeses hand
the end of the primordial stew

The cowboy suddenly had an amazing thought
they were all that was left of the past!
Just he and this coyote he considered his kin
they were the only ones left, at last

but then, from behind that cedar tree
larger than any stagecoach
to bring this nightmare to it’s inevitable end
came the last, starving cockroach!

Robert Dennis 11,07