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Was he thinking aloud or trying
Taken from 'The Windows of Graceland'...to help? If we had to stand up to spell a word as Gaeilge, he croaked along with us and that was all we had to go on with – tossed every day on the storm of sounds, the unintelligible language that must have been beaten out of children on the same spot a hundred years before a language filled now with pain and spittle and because he stuttered in between the letters, his ‘uh’ and ‘eh’ and ‘ah’ could be taken for the wrong vowel, the signal for him to dash to the drawer for his stick. We rocked in front of him, our ears cocked to his tobacco breath, another game of bluff. |
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