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IsabelleSkye
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0 posted 1999-09-05 10:59 AM








Old Babe's Revenge




now this story I'm about to tell

ain't fiction m'friend, I know it well

it's about an ornery old nag

a bale of hay in a horse-skin bag

she whinnied and kicked and raised a fuss

she bucked, snorted and made fools of us

her apple thieving was about to end

that's the plot of this story m'friend

once when hastily through the fence I ducked

her heels firing a double-barreled buck

I'd had it I yelled, I stormed and fumed

as this plot formed, my evil revenge bloomed

'stead of an apple, her next foray

'stead a treat to last her 'til judgement day

an onion in an apple-skin guise

will pucker her lips and moist her eyes

I giggled and smirked all through the night

plotted her doom with such evil delight

the 'morrow rose with barely a squeak

and through the dim-lit barn I did sneak

up to the crib I stole so quiet

I heard Old Babe whicker near beside

soft liquid eye hides a viper's nest

I muttered, cursed, swore 'neath my breath

"Be damned! Go to hell with the rest!

Yes this will be a fight to the death!"

open palm held a shiny red orb

irresistible to man or horse

she sniffed, sneezed and gingerly bit

I smothered a laugh and an eyelid flit

waiting and watching Medusa eat

I soon took an unobtrusive retreat

slowly I backed right out the stall

inch by inch, I snuck down the long hall

when suddenly my backside did bump

on the dung heap I fell with a thump

spluttering I rose up like Phoenix

steam rolling off me in smelly drifts

upon my ears fell a horsey laugh

as I yelled "I'll kick your buckskin ass!"




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Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts Columbus to his own soul.......J. Stevens

© Copyright 1999 IsabelleSkye - All Rights Reserved
Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 1999-09-05 11:20 AM


Very funny! Now which one is the smarter animal here! I like the way this one is written.....!
caroline
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2 posted 1999-09-05 11:24 AM


Ohhhh no...this is too funny! I love it! I'll be laughing at this for a long time!

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

Balladeer
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3 posted 1999-09-05 11:48 AM


Izzy, surely by now you know what happens when you horse around!
Denise
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4 posted 1999-09-05 01:05 PM


Absolutely hillarious!!

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Denise

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05
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5 posted 1999-09-05 05:05 PM


Sitting here laughing...thanks for posting

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
6 posted 1999-09-05 06:35 PM


Lizzy,
Had the best laugh of the night, thank you

PhaerieChild
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Aloha, Oregon
7 posted 1999-09-05 09:44 PM


Oh my God!!! I thought I was gonna bust somethin' from laughin' so hard. Very funny!!! I love it!

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Words lay dormant in the recesses of the mind til called forth to a labor of love. By WildChild


Nan
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8 posted 1999-09-06 09:10 PM


...Did Old Babe drop a bit of rhyme on ye as well???? hehe...
Sunshine
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9 posted 1999-09-07 12:29 PM


Well, I'm sure you simply won't let up with the horse winning...on to the next fun one!
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