Black and Blue
He is lost.
The speckled Mustang is gone
their black and white world
once sharp and simple
blurred and complex
once solid and strapping
disparate and drained.
The thoroughbred
aroused and intent on manufacturing a sanitized reality
prolonging the tumultuous crush of
heel spurs, whips searing flesh
mouths dripping sweat, spitting insults.
Compelled to continue
until his spirit quashed
its own refrain.
And she, a high-strung graying Philly
has escaped the rankle
raw and resolute.
A changeling
emerging
from a bloodied vortex of undiluted memory
still reeling but fully conscious.
Her star
liberated from a black bog.
once forced to digest her faults
now unrestrained and fearless.
Blithe
over her
lost credits, lost shine, and lost influence.
Finally able
to imagine a life
beyond black and blue.
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