Tag: irish
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Prayer to Love
Now I write of things pleasant, cleanse my palette of death’s mention An ode to love tender and long lasting, varied and sensual, mysterious Tension of a life spent in willing company, the will subdued but the heart freed Of its foremost need, that deed once signed marks a love that should shine eternal A…
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Dublin Types and Sorts
Indigents doing coke in the gents Wolfwhistling grabbing testicles, hassling safety glass 24 hour Texaco Ghent’s best offtake an edge, bald Mexican he bought it from His girl’s drug-gullet capacious as a pelican’s A 50s Guinness poster on a Christflank scratched mirror, as much reflection as pension book stamps are of a life A Toucan…
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Straightener with James Joyce
He gave me no choice I’m having a straightener with James Joyce He wrote Ulysses but he’s useless in the ring Bad knees, a breeze has him dancing reels Ineluctable modality of the visible is tested when I get physical, shots I drilled send him spilling over a table Half the man Leopold Bloom is,…
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