Ode To A jock

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    I was married to a jockey and this was his dream too.

    Ode To A jock

    The gate flies open and we jump out the best
    with nostrils flaring and ears pinned our match
    we have now met.
    I steady my mount, then we
    head for the rail, the pounding of hooves are 
    all around me but onward we sail.
    We are crunched, pinched, and beaten about
    but the horse shows no resistance and I find a
    way out.
    Then out of the turn and down the stretch, I yell "lets
    go" and he leaves like a jet.
    I can see up ahead the finish line, it's not too far
    now
    I can almost smell the roses in the winner's circle
    at Churchill Downs.
    No greater accomplishment can a jock achieve
    then to be the winner of a Kentucky Derby.
    I dismount and as my feet hit the ground, a mob
    of reporters come running, the bunch of hounds.
    Shoving microphones in my face for me to recap
    the last furlongs of the race.
    I try to respond though I am a bundle of nerves
    after the last sixteenth it was all a blur.
    The horse did his job he carried us through
    You should be interviewing him, he's the real news.
    The lights have now faded, the interviews are done
    the parties are all over, our race has been run.
    Next year will bring another chance for someone to
    win this most prestigious race
    And another will stand in my place with pride
    beaming from thier face.
    For no greater honor will a jock ever recieve
    than to be the winner of a Kentucky Derby.

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    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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