The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by Mark Haddon

Author:Mark Haddon [Haddon, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49819-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2005-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Move quietly and hunt the squares

and courtyards at the hour of dusk

for squeals of laughter which betray

the young girls hiding

in the darkest corners.

Then slip the rings and bracelets

from their arms and fingers.

They’ll complain. But not much.

Black

It comes as a surprise to find that hell

is the same house you’ve lived in these nine years.

Two orange stains beneath the kitchen taps,

birdsong in the yard, those floral curtains.

But you’re not at home. Not by a long way.

That fist of wet meat in your chest

will not let you forget. The seconds pass,

as slow as that frozen age before the child

hits the red bonnet of the skidding car.

You light a Marlboro from the dog-end

of the last. Outside, shoppers and workmen

swim through their day like dolphins, ignorant

of how they do this stupid, priceless trick

you once knew. The phone rings. Your cigarette smoke

does its poisonous little ballet.

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