When I’m at the dentist, I’m a big beautiful horse, mouth soft, snort to show spiritedness restrained, teeth out for human reasons, which are not my reasons

• Horse reasons are slow

• nicker for reassurance of human fluttering

• slowing down everyone to Horse Time with my big gentleness

• neck Velvet on purpose

• I am not worried

• I am all of the outdoors in your soft chair

• I know where the bull keeps to his pasture and I distance him

• prod away with your teeth-hands as you scrabble knowledge from my good big mouth, big enough to hold you and your family

• big stomach full of grass

• no Modernism in my head

• lift shoes politely

• sturdy for going up mountains later

• Necessary for field

• running big for freedom

• Patient for understanding, slow for sitting, restful mouth for asking

• Stern with a pony for teaching how sit still, how dentist, how teeth

• I hold back my big strength for you to look

• Your quickness is from hurry, my quickness is from ready

• aware of surroundings

• grass patience

• Eyelashes so long for the horse

• You may all come and look at the horse, and help the horse, and goodbye

• People are dentist but a horse is horse

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