Tag: dublin
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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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Pearl Jam Guy
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…