Tag: ireland
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ABUSIVECOMMUTER
Goons clowning on the Luas Crowded trams I’ll sit the roof Try look aloof with someone’s hoof in your gob Find your little book’s calm, day on the job Not dirty, does someone even have to do it? Wife whatsapps me about house viewings, tell her sure thing but I’ve plenty be-doings Begorrah and begob…
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I Hate Town
Moons glowering at all of us Spire towering, abhorring us Jutting up like a vast syringe Totem black tar heroin binge Barney’s Laneway don’t go back there Rusty knife boys selling crack there Go another way to go into the Sackville for your nightly Satzenbrau Can’t use names because town is tiny but someone’s husband’s…
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Drizzly Day Date Dublin
Lash raining Cab hailing Grips cold railing She’s gold, grailing Near to Grafton Trying to cold read her Taxi metre rocking up like Peter Looks amazing Looks she’s graced with Grace of angels Grips the handrails Like walking steep trails Along they sail Like a shit train even a good date has potential to derail…
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Bankburster
Commerce stilted while high street’s silted More burst banks than Dillinger’s explosives More bankside miracle than the hands of Moses More roses strapped to lamp posts More wool than trapped in lamb coats Across your eyes, that’s my disguise My five fingers venetian blind one eye I’ve always been a hider in closets A closet…