JONATHAN SWIFT
The Dean of St Patrick’s wished he was a horse
through Gulliver
“in defiance of truth
and regularity” – prose plain and crystalline
as Adam’s Ale, carefully
approaching
the Houyhnhnms with bucket and shovel
(although he located them
in Australia,
horses are, green or orange, the Irish
religion), reminding the
English nobles
that under their silks and velvets
they were only Yahoos.
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