Month: Jul 2024
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Following you to the mansion
Going where tens go Old manse far out, hillcarved in golden countryside On a cold night walking up its gravelled drive, long cars driving by Descried by drivers, described liberally as an Irish As if my thickness represented us all God forbid. Pilots first disembark Marking stones with Dunnes finest spat’s soles Distinguished guests alight…
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Bounding after everafter bound
Trailing you like a dog-seen scent A shadow leant animation, enamoured by caster You alabaster in stillness, cheetah fleet or faster Your feet soundless, printing no tattoo, water Through the forest and I follow Chagrinning rutting harts Scattering unblinking hinds Chewing the cud of my bitter defeats Bleeding into my inkwell, ichor-riven odes.
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Choosy eater
In a word pickyeater Eat a random bird’s dirtbox But need my apples peeled Once smashed liqueurs drank the contents like a shot Once drank most of a bottle of Jäger from an ash tray But hesitate trying shrimp, because it has a face And shape I find repulsively unappealing Like a wriggling worm. Choosy…
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Fiscal Dracula fisting my bank balance
Cleaning out my bank account Like I’m being mind controlled By pecuniary count dracula Warlord of Wallachia short a few dollars Saw coffers bottom and coughed up a lure Abjuring sense penning my pin at the ATM Selecting withdrawal extracting maximum Fuck the taxman, fear no axeman Love thy batsman, some of my maxims He…
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Silken Thomas
The bauld FitzGeral of Kildare In daring, doing; in doing, uncaring False rumours have reached mantle-tickled ear Hearsay leashed him and rash course steered Wars, rumours of wars Fathers hanged in Rometown towers. Tudorcousin garbed richly In Dublin’s marble heart Faith compel to heel Rebellion inchoate “A villain you are not, Thomas. Always doubting, since…
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