The Horse That Had a Flat Tire, by Richard Brautigan

The Writers Forum poetry thread is for people to publish their own work. I'm taking the liberty of reprinting something of Brautigan's, because I like it and hopefully you will too.
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Once upon a valley
there came down
from some goldenblue mountains
a handsome young prince
who was riding
a dawncolored horse
named Lordsburg.

I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever

In the valley
there was a beautiful maiden
whom the prince
drifted into love with
like a New Mexico made from
apple thunder and long
glass beds.

I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever

The prince enchanted
the maiden
and they rode off
on the dawncolored horse
named Lordsburg
toward the goldenblue mountains.

I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever

They would have lived
happily ever after
if the horse hadn’t had
a flat tire
in front of a dragon’s
house.

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From the collection, "The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster", by Richard Brautigan

 

I like this poem too!