Hi shah,
Perhaps I should wait a while to reply to this one shah.
But I think I've been able to work out that the "he" in the first part is a
racehorse and the "I" in the second part is the owner. Then I began to
realise that each part was telling me a different part of a story - but I'm
having problems trying to work out the details of the story (I'm having to
guess so much, having to try and put all the bits together and try again!).
I mean, the horse has already been shot, it won a lot of money, yet a shot
horse still get close enough to win that it was in a photo-finish... (Even
it I put it in reverse order I still have to puzzle quite a lot to make
sense of it - and I can still make a variety of plots out of the facts).
And, in the second part, the "I" needn't be the Owner, it could be the
Trainer, the Jockey, The Vet who offers the choices for someone else to
make!
And is it that the person is snuggling "against (the) plaster cast" that's
on the horses leg? I can't think what else it means - but it seems a strange
thing to do. I mean if I had an animal that had been injured I think I'd be
looking at the whole animal, particularly its eyes, when thoughts like you
mention go through my mind (But I'm a softie at heart!).
So, it seems, to me, to be a narrative poem, a poem that's telling a story,
but I - for one - keep thinking that I want to know more of the story. I
mean I remember your poem about the woman on the scooter - now that was a
poem that told all it needed to tell of a story!
I guess don't need to know everything, but I feel I need to know more.
However I'm not a horse racing afficianado so others that are may not have
the problems I've had to solve. And others may read it far more easily,
maybe understand more about the meaning of "equine fate" and "curse" in the
ending of the poem.
Bob
>From: c s shah <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: NEW:Difficult Choice
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:12:44 +0530
>
>Difficult Choice
>
>A finger pulled the trigger
>and he lay - honored:
>the booty he amassed
>for his bosses;
>lost in a photo-finish.
>
>Against plastered cast where
>smoothness turns into a bulge,
>I suffer nightmare -
>of amputation;
>equine fate; or a curse?
>--
>
>c s shah
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