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Horses

Horses know about you
They can sense you coming by
Can smell you
As if their noses
Stretched back
To yesterday afternoon
Or the day before
Horses
As if their necks stretched around the corner
They knew you would be coming by
They greet you
As if they had been waiting for you
So happy you've arrived
Almost as if they got you here
And when you say
"See you later" you know
They know when that will be
You feel safe
After you've left them
These guardians of the road
Horses look kindly on you
But their ways are inscrutable
You know they have helped you
But you cannot say
Exactly how
they did it
But that doesn't matter
Horses know what's good for you
They also know you don't know this
They are very polite
Horses know
They just know
Horses spend their time
Ruminating.
If you met a horse and asked him what he had been doing
This is what he would tell you
"Ruminating".
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