Sunday, 29 May 2022

Lester Piggott - d. May 29th 2022

Your peers knew better the shape 
of your backside than your face, 
kept like a well-tended grave.

This was the long and short of it all;
a rustle of silks, the rumbling pall
of hooves, the going good, the fall.

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