Tag: ireland

• Burnt back The Liberties

  Wax cast of my own face worn as a mask, wolf wool-wearing faux flock Waving my Tullamore ashplant to lull the masses into disastrous fandom Blocks of flats chocoblock with rats twisttailed Swab any inch of the wall, test green for scabies Rotten like Johnny, how it’s still standing ask the man Rubber johnny tumescent…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• House Hunt

  Counting up cash, need a house in the country Letting agent cunty, treating me like a rat Open day with bunting, couples a hundred Know that’s too many punters Feel like umphing his guts, break him up Humpty Dumpty Pull my punch and don’t bother with grumpy Want two hundred kay, you won’t spare twenty…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Inner City Oldtime

  Our own tongue throat stranger And failing to nourish will or may perish We pause, wishing to answer betters in Irish Cannot know a lost language Vanishes, we answer in English Less than swill of which our Liffey consists. What is Irishness What is native wit? Slack jaws guffawing Slenting houses built from haunted bricks…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Ripping down paper reality

  Nine lives won’t go nine miles when every stile subsists a new trial Different styles for different briars, Aristotlean modes keep me alive My smile more crocodile than the Nile, lipsticked by guile Checked the freezer for something to eat, lack’s surfeit Manifesting feed, fee taken, rune awakened wax surface Diadem and bracelet closely inspected prove…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Pissed up pagan

  If you chance to take a glance over see a man whose not sober Not quite soulless but his prayers groaned go to silt-bellied Sobek Piss off a pagan you get your guts garlanded over a henge You’ll get wrecked with my neolithic vengeance, mediaeval weapons Know you pissed off a pagan When aches and…

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  21st Jul 2024

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