Monday, December 8, 2025

Carrots & Sticks; Sticks & Carrots _ new poetry December 2025

Carrots & Sticks; Sticks & Carrots 

The horse hated him.

Mostly everyone hated him.

He who believed in whipping.

Whipping into submission 

(He was too stupid for anything else)

He whipped his men, he whipped his women, he whipped his children, he whipped his dogs, he whipped his horses.

Unlike Judge Walter Conway who taught his men, taught his women, taught his children, taught hisdogs, taught his horses.

Judge Walter Conway gave his youngest daughter Elly-Mae a beautiful horse named River. Elly-Mae and River were inseparable until General Pmurt-Aissur (he who was mostly hated) bribed the Supreme Court majority to fire Judge Walter Conway and drive him into bankruptcy.

As General Pmurt-Aissur sat on top of his newly acquired horse on top of Pointers Ridge, River halted as a scrawny young Indian ran upon them with a bow & arrow = the young, scrawny Indian now known as "He Who Bow & Arrow Fat Pig Hated Whipper." And River & the Indian he lived happily ever after, amen. 

December 8, 2025 5am

John Alan Conte' Jr.

MyStrawHat.com 




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Good wishes,
John

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