L'aura del Campo

A tail of Rag to Riches (a poem for the filly of course)

A Tail of Rags to Riches

What genuine risk

Genuine Risk won the Kentucky Derby in 1980.

is taken
by placing you on Belmont's party line
one gal among six pals that race
together one last time?

And off you go!
One mile and a half around the track.
You're not a Tanya

Tanya won the Belmont in 1905, the last filly to do so. Then of course there was that skating problem with Tonya Harding.

(slugging someone's calf);
you play by rules.

One mile, no sweat; the half's a kicker; kick you do.
You race your winning colors

Winning Colors won the Kentucky Derby in 1988

till young Curlin's

Curlin won the 2007 Preakness.

through
by a head, you're ruthless

Ruthless, a filly, won the first Belmont in 1867

to the end, a blazing star,
a tail of rags to riches.

© Kåre Enga [164.109] 07-06-10

Anyone who has followed the Triple Crown probably doesn't need the popnotes, but I put them in anyways. "Tanya" was hard to work into this sketch. Anywho, Rags to Riches won it all, the first filly to win the Belmont since 1905.

BTW: It's difficult to work up something for an event while it is still on people's minds.

DREAM IMAGES:

On the back of closed eyelids: grey clouds; white pickets; stark leafless tree; a street-lamp; dormered buildings of pink brick, orange brick; glow of sunset; a woman's profile: her arms embracing air, her voice ... "bury me around the cistern".

SURREALISTIC THOUGHTS:

Where oh where's Prinz Ahnold of Kaliporn ...
Yeah, he's on a Jesuit mission to Mars.

Somewhere in Montana?
I'm off to catch an August flurry
Best to you and yours, your Kåre.

Drab grey. Stink pink. Pee green.

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