I see you
Dad’s pearl jam shirt
Facebook work listed as pint university
For you it never gets better
Than Yellow Leadbetter
You take a red setter bus to the city center
Eddie Vedder on your headphones
His lyrics enter you like food, like bones
Into an ogre’s gullet
You never caught the header
Born goal tender.
When you think of going, never ask why go
Don’t stop until you see the coast of Sligo
Jeremy spoke in class today
Wish you’d never speak again
Your coat and trousers way clashing everyday
A style shirker
A zig zag drug rug from Tambuli and a hash lollipop is all you’ve got
Big mop head, get us followed around the shop.
You’re wearing green corduroy trousers I wouldn’t allow
Looking like Tom Bombadil
Paired with a faded Vitality shirt thrifted from Capel Street Goodwill
You’ve ranked Ten eleven out of ten
Enjoy Butthole Surfers and The Melvins
You speak rough but attended Belvedere
It’s dear to look this near
Homeless, queer eye for grunge guys
Looking at you think the year
Was ninety two, drinking American beers
Shedding tears when Kurt’s mentioned on Reeling in the Years.
Saw your parents at Holles Street hospital
Asking whether refunds are still possible
The scene was comical
Reception got an eyeful
He held the snaps like a rifle
Made her swear on the Bible
They could not kill the zygote
Now thirty, studying IT in Sligo.
Alchemisland 
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