Submissions by ojhoff

I bought two quarter horses, a gelding and a mare.
Well, Cowboy Jim, he warned me, "Those critters are a
pair,
A team. They're broke for riding and for driving, but
you see,
If you try to part them, there is no guarantee
That one without the other will make a happy horse.
What that would amount to would be a horse divorce."

But what Jim did not tell me was that their equine
love
Was pretty much one sided. I watched that gelding
shove
The mare aside, and bite her. He wanted all the food.
His kiddish, spoiled behavior appeared...

I’m writing about somebody who described his day (yesterday) as ishy.  He was asked if he qualified for The Discount.  Why he didn’t explode on the spot, I don’t know.  I saw the person who asked him.  She was on a fast slide down the other side of Over The Hill.  He might have taken it in stride but I know this has happened to him now and then for many years now.  Too often and too early.  Since his thirties, when his peers were often described as “kids”.   He has spent time looking in the mirror for signs of premature aging and not found them.  He says that out-of-town, people underestimate...