A lovely woman in Minnesota owned a 100-year-old horse, actually thirty-seven, but in horse years that's at least 100. In the third grade I read there were eleven surviving Civil War veterans. Under the photo captions it said they were mostly drummer boys. Now both horse and veterans are dead, the woman married, rid of her binding sweetheart horse. I know these peculiar things because I'm Jim, at the right place, the right time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BATTLE OF NASEBY by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN by ALBERT LINDLEY BEANE JOB. OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 95 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE IDYLL 1. THE EPITAPH OF ADONIS by BION THE TABLE D'HOTE by JOHN PAUL BOCOCK |