The Horse of Course

The cheap decadence of all of this was exhilarating and then deflating,

you were self deprecating and then you were a sociopath of sorts,

always talking about you and the great beyond,

but if you knew what the great beyond was,

you would be able to tell me that after it fades to white,

it either fades to purgatory or paradise,

one or the other,

not one for one and one for the other

You bet on all of this being a long shot,

but it was two furlongs until this all took a hairpin turn,

and you moved your four legs off the ground so you could show us a reversal of fortunes

and if you knew what it meant to wait for the gun instead of firing it,

to draw this out,

but only inside the lines,

then and only then,

would you polish this off with a changing of lanes