Tag: irish
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Lost and found
Once was lost, now am found I cut the branch, golden bough Find your Special Branch, the gun go blauwe I’m Chulainn’s hound cooling down after a spate of crimes I’m laying low in my home estate after an eight star chase. Back at the ranch, second tranche Second time in France, sign the contract…
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Escaping drudgery
You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…
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Make me a dress of nature
I need something spun with leaves I need a green dress for the evening Something freeing I need a keen wrist seamstress to weave this glas dress Do justice to these descriptors I might wear a glassen slipper I’m hoping to get off with a prince, pass and own a dutchy Looking to make past…
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Bad banana
Produce my banana from the bag It’s going bad, skin’s bistered Yellow as the fire on you I wouldn’t piss out If there’s a practical joke I never miss out Mischance’s prince, Stillorgan’s disorder Lord of local misrule, east coast exhorder Too soft to shove up my ass Over my shoulder cast, passing back It…
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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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