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第2章 The Turnip-Snedder

for Hughie O'Donoghue

In an age of bare hands

and cast iron,

the clamp-on meat-mincer,

the double-flywheeled water-pump,

it dug its heels in among wooden tubs

and troughs of slops,

hotter than body heat

in summertime, cold in winter

as winter's body armour,

a barrel-chested breast-plate

standing guard

on four braced greaves.

'This is the way that God sees life,'

it said, 'from seedling-braird to snedder,'

as the handle turned

and turnip-heads were let fall and fed

to the juiced-up inner blades,

'This is the turnip-cycle,'

as it dropped its raw sliced mess,

bucketful by glistering bucketful.

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