Day 107

Today's words:
Software
Hamburger
Paddock
Rain
Sunburn
Fleet

The software
Engineer thoughtfully chewed his hamburger.
Last year, he'd been a jockey, leading his mount around the paddock,
Hoping it wouldn't rain.
He didn't mind a sunburn;
The sun made his horse fleet.

If his horse lost today because it wasn't fleet
Enough, he'd quit and become a software
Engineer. No chance of sunburn
In a windowless office all day. At lunch he'd grab a hamburger
From the company cafeteria. But it was looking more and more like rain
There in the paddock.

How he remembered the smell of that paddock,
Knowing his horse would fail to be fleet
If it started to rain.
Software
Doesn't have a smell, unless of hamburger
And he wouldn't have to risk a sunburn

To succeed at his job. He could feel the sunburn
Starting on the back of his neck as he walked around the paddock.
That poor horse would wind up as hamburger
If it wasn't fleet
Enough today. He could become a software
Engineer but the horse had no options.  He hoped it wouldn't rain,

Or at least that the rain
Would hold off until after the race.The sunburn
Was etching into the tops of his ears now. He wondered about software
Walking around that paddock,
Willing the horse to be fleet,
And craving  hamburger.

The idea of a horse meat hamburger
Is sad, so he really hoped it wouldn't rain.
He hoped the horse would be fleet
And he didn't mind the sunburn.
He didn't really want to leave the paddock
For software.

Buit it did. The horse became hamburger despite the jockey's sunburn,
Because it did begin to rain there in the paddock.
The horse wasn't fleet and the jockey went into software.