Op een zonnige ochtend slofte Radstaak langs het kanaal in Kleindochteren. Toen hij voorbij de Dochterensebrug was zag hij iets liggen. Hij naderde het vrolijke doek met manen en sterren dat over iets heen lag en zag ook een staart die er onderuit stak. Het was een klein paard, een pony waarschijnlijk. Het deed hem denken aan een blues van Nico Stai, hij humde hem zachtjes voor zich uit:
Dead Pony Blues
I seen a dead dead pony running through my dream
I seen the water water catching up with it
I got this cold cold feeling like I wont forget
and I need to make it stop
I need to make it stop
and you
you're sitting on the bathroom floor
drawing pictures
making sure it doesn't even show
but your mother's calling on the phone again
what you going to say now that it got so late?
one day you will wake up
and everything that you thought you would be
will be standing there staring right back at you
and I guess I should have said so
but I swear I didn't even know how to feel about it
when it walked right out on you
and there's a nervous calling running through the walls
and it's getting louder now
it's begging you to please
you know that slow thing humming at the other side of skin
it's what you listen to
when you run out of you
so I hope
I hope you really get it now
'cause there's a reason why you keep on running out of time
and I just seen it crawling under your skin
and it's making everything feel like it just shouldn't feel
one day you will wake up
and everything that you thought you would be
will be standing there staring right back at you
and I guess I should have said so
but I swear I didn't even know how to feel about it when
it walked right out on you
so hush hush
be quiet now
keep yourself under lock and key
you know the one thing that keeps running out?
you should not be chasing it
'cause it will just leave you falling on your knees
falling on your knees