{"sf1_id":1169747,"sf2_id":"5nzjMVjn","title":"To Thing","author":"charles_they","words":120,"posted_at":"2017-04-07T18:49:48.000Z","tags":["Equine","Horse","Humor","Poem","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1169747-to-thing","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/5nzjMVjn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a5/89/a5894f40-f2d0-4285-ad6d-e9bd4c6e4d66","description":"A short, nonsensical narrative on a horse with an unrealized dream.","content":"### To Thing\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou thing and bring a forth to be,\n\nYou make, unmake, a thing to thee,\n\nA thee to hear with eye not ear,\n\nA prompt of thing to enter here,\n\nYour thinging gentle like the mouth,\n\nYet might\u0026nbsp;in heart doth\u0026nbsp;oft it routh,\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou enter deep into the thong,\n\nAnd burn and writhe though bright and long,\n\nThough why are you a thong of thin,\n\nEquine of tongue of tainted tin,\n\nOf perfect print, of winning word,\n\nWho doth not climb to head the herd?\n\nWhen all you feel hath been for naught,\n\nAnd all the thing\u0026nbsp;you thang and thought,\n\nHave carried not your thund'ring forth,\n\nThen whithper not, my thilly horth.\n\n* * *\n\n-Charles Michael Averin","series":{"name":"Poetry Postings","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1169266-the-sea.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1170918-dragon-slaying.json"}}