Le Pádraig Ó Snódaigh
Coiscéim 2022
ISBN 6660012220113
…Agus mé ag útamáil lem’ mhála lá, ar sé, “Cad tá sna páipéirí sin?”
“Dréachtaí dánta,” arsa mise, á dtairiscint do. “An mian leat amharc orthu?”
“Ní mian,” ar seisean. “Tá deireadh leo, agus cuireann tusa deireadh le scríobh na filíochta anois, agus sin amhlaidh riamh go dtí go ndeirim a mhalairt leat, má deirim.”
Bhíos béasach (tig liom a bheith in amanna), chuireas ar ais im’ mhála iad, sheasas agus, gan focal a rá, bhuaileas amach an doras.
Away liom, más ea, lem’ shaol mar a bhí, móide so lúide súd, an reacaireacht níos tábhachtaí ná na foinsí nó ócáidi a spreag iad mar insintí athraithe chun leas na scéalaíochta. Bain sult astu…
… As I was picking up my bag one day, he said, “What’s in those papers?”
“Drafts of poems,” I said, being offered to. “Do you want to watch them?”
“I don’t want to,” he said. “They are over, and you stop writing poetry now, and that will never be the case until I tell you otherwise, if I say so.”
I was polite (I can be at times), put them back in my bag, stood up and, without saying a word, knocked on the door.
Away with me, however, with my life as it was, plus so much less, the narration more important than the sources or events that inspired them as altered narratives for the sake of storytelling. Bain sult astu…
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