Tag: ireland

• Dublin Days

  Down Winetavern street beside what should be wood Quay  The people’s will defied, the land reused the finds destroyed What should have been Ireland’s golden mile, twice what York is Is now the grim set of civic offices near to Cork Street Between the mummified cat and rat and the needle exchange  Where you can…

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  14th Apr 2024

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• All Ulysseslessness (A Man For All Ulysseasons)

  So many rats tramping in ranks behind me they call me Hamlin When I turn nib devil sparks fly like too many plugs jammed in The line the floor like plaguebearing lino I’m Cain neither lido nor coco, float cheek and get cutthroat When the donetalking are brokenosed my loaf flows bring bros low I’m…

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  14th Apr 2024

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• Eight Hundred Give Or Take

  The Irish man, he of the Glen We are bogmade not of Fen To us a tree is a crown, and a road sounds like a cow When you want it done shout anois, they’ll know you want it now Liza’s ladies and her quisling spymasters, lorecrackers and invisible inkers  Crossed finger across table winkers…

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  11th Apr 2024

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• Gospel/Go Spell Go

  His profitless enterprise Sickly King’s boils dire need of lancing, neither Holly nor Ivy The water we need boiled scarcely lukewarm He prises the skin apart and his hot needle enters Thick, slow-sliding goop slides down his bicep like a stabbed egg’s centre The excess humor first black as a puma, then grey and chunky…

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  11th Apr 2024

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• Port Authority

  You have to see the port authority Suddenly it’s Baltimore Wire season two It’s always fresh down heah, hey fuck you! Nothing to raise a camera like bored authority Only Gojira beats Gamera, his lunch thieves. This isn’t like a trip to outlet mall on your J1, this is out let fall all  K 1…

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  5th Apr 2024

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