Tag: life
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Ailing emperor of my life
Summer in Dublin, I’m Sulla and I’m out pulling Bookish ones down from Glencullen, staying with cousins Or mad buzzers up from Belmullet, just out for the chugging Fulla suds snorting toboggan terrain Shouting Up De Flats, yiz cunts, at students from Spain congregating At the entrance to the lane where I’m selling MDMA Hero…
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When the boat comes in
Wispy clouds Stetsoned and made alleged Sol’s weathermaking head. The Waker’s air raid alarm was slapped quiet like a mid-century stepson. Many hair-raising trials had he endured, emerging uncured of weakness But to strife inured, shorn of shyness and driven to speak up, to seek; Dad always said life’s bread’s one foot afore th’next, unto…
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Homemade luck
I’m that boy who, because he wore trousers that he had received That very evening On which he turned eighteen, which him as adult delineated, Could not board the lifeboats, Could but bawl as they noised away emptily, Full of women and children like the thoughts of soldiers. The clock ticks over, you can’t fix…
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Over there they treat us like
I am the rust-jammed hatch things vanish casually into. Matte blackness I am that. Roaring stag, abhorring all practice unlordly; Sword unsheathing a resort only for When foes mean to stab the impertinent, mismanaged slab Of my sagging collaborative flesh like day labouring Keats. * Replies by ripple this dirty nail paint’d Grit-flavoured water, stagnant…
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