Samstag, Dezember 16, 2006, 16:45 - BÜCHER
... blind-drawn dark dining room of School House,dusty and echoing as a dining-room in a vault,
Mr and Mrs Pugh are silent over cold grey cottage pie.
Pugh reads, as he forks the shroud meat in,
from Lives of the Great Poisoners.
He has bound a plain brown-paper cover round the book.
Slyly, between slow mouthfuls,
he sidespies up at Mrs Pugh,
poisons her with his eye,
then goes on reading.
He underlines certain passages and smiles in secret.
The Boat House at Laugharne... ...where the "words good enough to eat" come from...
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