Tag: dublin
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Deaths Less Remembered Blood Debts As Yet Untendered
Willy Mulcahy they put him to the lash, dashed through his door burnt out the gaff Laughed while flames ate at Hyena gnashers ag gáire, waited to piss upon the ash Ask where’s the cash, Paddy He answers in Irish, they answer in rifle He is tied up to the ash tree, bashed with gun…
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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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Straightener with James Joyce
He gave me no choice I’m having a straightener with James Joyce He wrote Ulysses but he’s useless in the ring Bad knees, a breeze has him dancing reels Ineluctable modality of the visible is tested when I get physical, shots I drilled send him spilling over a table Half the man Leopold Bloom is,…
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