Tag: ireland
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Talk French
When we’re talking consignment, big business seeking alignment We parrot like we’re in Paris, which the Seine cuts in half He says a name I cut him off, he says it again I cut the cost Costcutter how I cut costs, sanguinary suds coursing, with my draw-blood boxcutter Did a course in how to become…
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Raised Good
I’m a Prince contending with life on an open road, used to glimmering places I have relations in Limerick, mostly Norman, Father and Uncles are Knights of Glin Vast bay windows signal light in, filtered through satin curtains it has the tallow, marshmallow hue of candlelight It makes the favoured brass candelabra to shine like…
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I Swear I’m Gonna Go This Time
Barely any bread loss but my source is inexhaustible Constables exhausted at my constant posturing, my muffler-free gas guzzler like an unmuzzled attack dog produces raincloud exhaust plumes Fumes poke holes in the ozone layer Tear open a pack of blue John Player tear away goldfoil layer and frisk my too-tight trousers for a lighter…
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
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Execution, Noble Death of Martyr Sparks Tears on Mary’s Cheek
Red the rod of punishment, testament to our eventual end Commencing with a rain of descending shells wailing like Djinn A long reign of hell unto ceaseless bloodshed Welcoming easeful death Deck slick with blood Red as runover berry punnets Yield of past melees vast upon Avast ye, cast eyes upon bold bastard William Turner…
Alchemisland 