Category: Filí my pockets
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Place
Rathlin prideful wild isle A belt of wrathful tides Rat lines upscurry landmines Bound for enemy mine Rathmines, wrath of mine Criminal tithes and types Snipers, pipers, enemy spies Swore I’d pick him out of any line Now they’re before me Can’t place his face No upsleeved ace White as cooked plaice one turns away…
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Dublin Types and Sorts
Indigents doing coke in the gents Wolfwhistling grabbing testicles, hassling safety glass 24 hour Texaco Ghent’s best offtake an edge, bald Mexican he bought it from His girl’s drug-gullet capacious as a pelican’s A 50s Guinness poster on a Christflank scratched mirror, as much reflection as pension book stamps are of a life A Toucan…
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Chasing Iseult
Fish to a gull My every plan she is the result She engulfs me Only her love can free me Thoughts of her like an orchestral theme follow me Even in dreams she is queen thereof. An insult to call Iseult Isolde Mark knows of her affairs but will not dissolve the marriage Nor absolve…
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Friend to a King
No such thing as a friend to a king To be friend to a king is to be friend to a lion They may lie on you, ply you with affections, rare attentions But they will never rely on you. You might die confused Hauled from chambers accused of crimes inventions of Meaner minds, such…
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King’s Jewel
Crown jewel berry hued buried with my favourite fool Let smith’s tools eke out my features, free the creature in the stone Unleashing images Two days ago, happy among hens, princes and goodly men enjoying all they felt was due them It was Tuesday and hot in Florence, that never short a florin lot In…
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