Crusher by Niall Leonard

Author:Niall Leonard [Leonard, Niall]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780449817896
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-11T06:00:00+00:00

nine

My soul was an old horse

Offered for sale in twenty fairs.

I’d memorized the poem so I wouldn’t have to read it off a page. I hadn’t known what it was called, only that my dad used to declaim it whenever he’d had too much to drink, which wasn’t often enough for me to remember much of it. I’d managed to piece together a few phrases in my head, and went searching for them on the Net. Turned out it was called “Pegasus,” by an Irish poet called Kavanagh, and it took some finding because there was an English poet with the same name and initials, and by the time I’d worked that out I was nearly cross-eyed with the effort of ploughing through endless verses online. I’d never really cared about poetry—why can’t writers just say what they mean?—but when I finally managed to read it I knew it was what Dad would have wanted, and this would be my last chance to indulge him.

The poem was about an artist trying to find a proper job and being endlessly rejected. The symbolism was so obvious even a thicko like me could understand it.

… the buyers

Were little men who feared his unusual airs.

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