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A Toast To Horseshit
by Tricia Sutton

… the smell of pure love
of a mystical place
home, to Ojai, where I was born to live
To the enchanting mountain views
to the intoxicating scent of orange blossoms
shady bike trails
and Celtic folk concerts in the park
To never a cold day
to stables
to friends with money
Oh, what I had and what I lost
Those were the best of my days
in spite of a few
No shadows preside o'er the magical place in a magical time
before the progressively merciless world had yet to proclaim me
Like an old song
like a photograph of your dog, Sue
nothing says "ahh memories" more than that familiar smell of horsey doo.
The odor of pure bliss, that's what Horseshit does to me.

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Tricia Sutton has many talents, none of which is writing poetry. She has actually led herself to believe that a character from her newly completed novel wrote this piece. She blames many things on her fictional characters. For a complete list of the brave magazines that published her stories, please visit her blog at http://dfmil09.wordpress.com/publications/.