Jean-Louis van Kuyck, Dutch
“Sure, At This Job You Have To Deal With a Lot of Horsesh*t, But Hay, It’s a Stable Living,” 1865
Oil on canvas
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/// “Horseplay” was, for her, something to savor,
and she treasured the feelings it gave her.
But he’d always complain,
“No, I won’t comb your “mane.”
Horses watching, he can’t curry favor.
/// Dragging huge clumps of hay from the stack
to her client was bad for her back.
But she’s happy she got ‘em,
(they protected her bottom),
in his hayloft that had a hay lack.
/// With the looks of a handsome blond Norseman,
he does not come across as a coarse man.
Still, the barefoot girl frowned,
hearing “Horsin’ Around.”
She now pictured him as Bojack Horseman.
/// All those horses will freeze in their tracks,
much too frightened to ever relax,
if they view in the road
just outside their abode,
the unspeakable beast with two backs.