Tag: irish
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Red dream
The Mersey turning red in Jung’s dreams At last throbbing rubedo of neural alcheme Schizophrene hippocrene by litre, deleting swathes of me Insisting void upon trackless maps, pathless impassable Seed of He divine nonefiner who wrote Ulysses Diver descrying pearls divers, alas his daughter downgoing drowns.
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Town Drunk
One among us 32 rungs up Jacob’s Ladder Rum-drunk gin junkie in sulky cups, his sullen sulcus sodden A silenus in wanton His ruddy complexion a lumpy, bumpy skein of dinosaur hide Trapped in the Montana Sand Sixty five million yeas before Christ died, lying waiting. His tapering nose alike an awl Encompassing his own…
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Goddess milk
Dressed as mortals might but could never Dressed as and of the sea Troy-bound triremes odyssey across bluegreen dress Eastgoing westfromers foamgoing Her skin the white horses decreasing to diminution At the lapping enfolding shore, where beachcombers Stow cuttlefish bones periwinkle shells in shawls and sodden burlaps Occident’s orient, backward’s front Facade of the willingly…
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Stymy those syllables
Don’t get hung up, might get strung up One more word you’ll never earn young’s antonym You’ll never mutter at the first wrinkle in the mirror Fucked with a nutter and got murdered When I talk, never have to ask if I stuttered When you talk, it’s speak up, you muttered Bleeding out in the…