"Horse Play" (or, "Released on Bale" or, again, "Graze Elegy")
Horse #1: 'Morning'
Horse #2: 'Morning'
Horse #1: 'Been doing much?'
Horse #2: 'Grazing'
Horse #1: 'Me too, grazing'
Horse #2: 'Humans came yesterday...'
Horse #1: (feigning interest) 'Oh yes?'
Horse #2: '.......put this coat on me'
Horse #1: 'Supposed to keep us warm'
Horse #2: 'I don't like the colour. It isn't really 'me''
Horse #2: 'They left hay too.....'
Horse #1: 'Makes a change from grass'
Horse #2: (miserably) 'It doesn't last very long'
Horse #1: 'Funny things, humans'
Horse #2: 'Yeah'
Horse #1: 'Sometimes......'
Horse #1: '........when I see them coming, I have a little canter around. It makes them smile'
Horse #1: 'Sometimes they take a photograph'
Horse #1: 'Frankly though I'd rather be over in that corner with Imelda'
Horse #1: 'Nuzzling.......'
Horse #2: 'I know......'
Horse #2: (wistfully) 'Can't say I blame you. You're lucky you saw her first'
Horse #1: (smiling) 'Yeah, you should come over, have a chat'
Horse #2: (after a pause) 'Oh, thanks......I will'
Horse #2: 'Ah well, back to the hay, (miserably again).........while it lasts'
Horse #1: 'Yeah'
(Both pause awkwardly)
Horse #2: 'What do you reckon for tomorrow then?'
Horse #2: (hopefully) 'More hay?'
Horse #1: 'Nah. Not for a while'
Horse #2: (sighing) 'More grazing then.......'
Horse #1: (walking slowly away) 'Yeah, more grazing'
(Both lower heads, backs to each other and ....... graze)
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