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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

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by Mark Haddon


  But everybody wants to slip

  their flesh off like a winter coat

  and enter this familiar room

  that smells of gas and beeswax,

  where sunlight pours from the big window

  and the freighters move continually

  in the river’s mouth.

  FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 2006

  Copyright © 2005 by Mark Haddon

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd, London, in 2005.

  Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Earlier versions of some of these poems appeared in Acumen, Boomerang, Reactions, Stand magazine, and the Evening Standard. “Poets” and “The River-Car” were published in the Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology 2000.

  The Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49819-9

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