Tag: urban

• SHITHOLE

  In a damp, dank, rank tenement In my element I’m hellsent, hellbound, hell bent on stamping out Anyone else selling ground up brown on my stomping ground I key nose spice So good they accept a ridiculous price They score, I get prizes like I hit the high score Sort 20 guys one night Like…

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  16th Feb 2026

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• Quayside musings

  A portly pillar of spilled teeth moonlight ensorcelled the crane-tattooed water Overhead, impossible butter light from brotherless stars snuffed out in antient time Without as much as a snarl, yet every night they are restarted from death Love and oblivion twinned in the wind-worn idol of Astarte In the lane abutting, cardboard alight in a…

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  9th Jan 2026

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• Just Out

  Walking around with baled fists Paid my bail at the station Cop shop vacation, three nights I stayed in Pale as pail in Travel like Palin Hold the Luas yellow railing Chest puffed out, hands are bricks Johnny Eagle tats over heroin pricks Irish men are good with bricks Kind which cement sticks  Kind which…

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  5th May 2024

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• 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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• Doing Deliveries in the Rain

  My eyes glaze over like windscreens on Ganymede A vast cave, tight nicking the sides, full of evil seeds Cold crystals in my eyelids like diamonds on a spiderleg Highway hawks above it all Talons clasping camera’s hood Sickly night light flushed Big kinky bruised arse of evening Lunar albinism of bright black clouds A…

  alchemisland

  29th Oct 2023

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