tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86455437384485576842024-02-21T10:25:29.883-08:00BLUES POMESAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16910442933404751344noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645543738448557684.post-19021346083706826512013-11-08T03:36:00.001-08:002014-05-01T05:09:05.973-07:00<h2>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b> <u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HYPHEN-ATED BREATH AND OTHER</span></u></b></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">'yet why not say what happened'</span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"> Robert Lowell</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">THE SEA IS THE MIRROR
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<b>I don’t wish for
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<b> Is truth, the sea
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<b>All I have is the
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<b> And these pure
words that will make you care.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>I hope they can make
you stop in sensuality<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> And
they will make you stop in motion to stare.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>My life does not have
the guide of sexuality<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> That will
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<b> Flected back at
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<b>Looking back at me in
a flash-back terror<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Looking back at me
looking back at the door.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>I enter this life by
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<b> Only to look right
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<b>I am not coming at
life from the front<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> To make you sit
up and glare at my dis-<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Ability and know that
life isn’t fair.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> The love of my
children pulled me from<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The brink to live in
this lonely despair.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> The love in these
pomes come out of you three<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The eye within the I gazing
back at me<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Reflecting care
in you stare.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>A pome within a pome<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Keeps on forming <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>a form. A line with-<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>in a line going back <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>like waves on the<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The ocean of<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Words lapping<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Everlasting<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Hope.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">THRONED</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The man in grey<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stands each day<o:p></o:p></div>
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Giving pomes his<o:p></o:p></div>
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One-way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A cripple stippled<o:p></o:p></div>
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In dark matter, re-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Citing silence to <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sway up there in<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life in death making<o:p></o:p></div>
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This his every day.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Can’t see the wood for the kitchen roll</span><br style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Beyond my window, the fence, the burst</span><br style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Of leaves, branching out, filling the holes</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />Of yesterday. There will always be the gaps<br />Of today catching life in motion like a screen-<br />Test, an audition of the way. Blue and green<br />Full of sun, a flash-back of another summers<br />Day. People stroll the promenades, the sun<br />Dips down in early May giving everything a-<br />Way. A boy and girl smiles to see such fun<br />And the sun rises into a moon. This is just<br />A stream of pulp that started to wipe away<br />My flow that goes out the window and soaks<br />Up my say. Today is just another day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">MUTE LIMP MAN</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>‘She said she didn’t
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<i>What was I doing on
yahoo’</i>? I know it’s not<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nice and it disrespectful but when you boil <o:p></o:p></div>
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it down it’s true.
What am I to do, to meet<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some-one, scammers and dis-respectful cam-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mers the net is a mine-field of snares but I’ve <o:p></o:p></div>
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Got to take the smooth with the rough. Some-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Times the truth is hard to swallow, tough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wanted to write of the sun and the rain but<o:p></o:p></div>
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This insult stuck in my head, ignorance is out<o:p></o:p></div>
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There in the sun and the rain, no one said life<o:p></o:p></div>
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Was an easy game. The
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A hard road this one is my abode so I’ll have<o:p></o:p></div>
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To take these knocks on the chin within and<o:p></o:p></div>
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Learn to fight another day until I have my own<o:p></o:p></div>
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One-way that’s deep wide tender and blue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sun and the rain<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are out today, playing<o:p></o:p></div>
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A balancing tune.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: small;">ANOTHER 3 POMES</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: large;">A HYPHENATED LINE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">‘A fusillade of question marks’</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ciaran Carson</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This isn’t my Belfast confetti</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stuttered out by a grafted tongue.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This is just my utterance of lang-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Uage my peace-meal in the sun.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This is my Easter rising, my par-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ade of words to bang on my drum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I’m not tripping over myself, these</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Aren’t the words of a gun, this is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">My green white and blue Easter</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lily, write now there’s no war to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Be won. This isn’t grammatically</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Or politically correct but at least</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">It’s the voice of truth my utter-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ance to bask in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">THE REASON WHY</span></div>
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A spider outside my window</div>
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Is crawling along the sky.</div>
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This is a pome that’s dawning</div>
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Inside my watery eye. The rain-</div>
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Drops they keep falling, half in</div>
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Light half in dark, these are</div>
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The words of my calling</div>
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Giving me the reason why.</div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">SUR-REALISM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I dreamt last night, I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hung like a donkey, woke</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Up holding a blue leg-lifter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Attached to my foot. My</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Carers remembered the night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I literally wore the wardrobe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It fell upon my head my wheel-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Chair, imagine watching T.V.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With a wardrobe on your head.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">SLABBED</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I feel tremors of phnew-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matic drill rising to<o:p></o:p></div>
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My brain, I’m being ex-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cavated. The nurse
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To take blood, ive got deep<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vein tromboses. It
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If the drill is digging for<o:p></o:p></div>
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The vein, I’m being slabbed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dug up to path my paralysed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Way, to cover over wonder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Why cant we see if coming<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or going. Life is
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Of photo-genics, like some-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thing splintered from the back-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bone of life, a dust particle in<o:p></o:p></div>
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The film of your eye.
Watching<o:p></o:p></div>
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A gull glide through grey, un-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Flapping its wings, wow I wish<o:p></o:p></div>
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I could get that high on the thermals<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since I tasted death during my stroke</div>
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It has left a residue of dark matter within</div>
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And I see it in the light every-day I awaken</div>
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it clumps together and gives me hope. </div>
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These words are dark on the clean white page</div>
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Memories I thought erased, 45 years just stroked </div>
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Away but that memory is within me. I thought for-</div>
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Gotten forever until dark matter brought them</div>
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Out to decorate this page. The truth is in there</div>
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Dark matter can give us true peace for our little</div>
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Corner of the world and give the world</div>
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True humanity. Even in my brutal honesty</div>
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Even if these words kill me, I am living no-</div>
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More-lies, my words are my truth.</div>
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<span class="userContent"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">STILL-LIFE BLISTER PACKED</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">1.<br /><br />The mind has to tick -tock<br />To tock-tick memory, awaken<br />The past to become the present.<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />A time and place back then be-<br />Comes when, what, where, why.<br />We take the past into the present<br />And it becomes gift wrapped<br />Like our present day.<br />A moment in time you thought<br />You had forgotten, this day<br />Will last forever.<br />2.<br />It has been almost ten years<br />Of torn time, like an advent<br />Calender throwing up sur-<br />Prizes. The day’s months<br />Weeks and years torn re-<br />Vealing my lucky thirteen<br />A day, a rip-off of drugs<br />That used to get me high<br />Now only get me through.<br />3.<br />The trees are beginning to bud<br />Thank fuck! It wasn’t a bleak<br />Winter but it was a bare one.<br />Time dragged like a blunt saw<br />Through sap, I thought the trees<br />Were a cardboard cut-out. Only<br />the autumn setting sun gave us colour-<br />ful delight turning grey to dusky pink<br />in the water of my eyes, reflected like<br />Waves lapping my shore, I see in my<br />Mind going down below my horizon.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">NEW-GRANGE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The world outside my window</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Beyond my fenced-in state, be-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Yond a religious sectarian divide.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Away far off behind the men be-</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br />Hind the wire and the 1916<br />Chosen few. The men who fought<br />And died for Ireland, merged in<br />Peace both green and blue.<br /><br />Here within the circle, the headstones<br />Of the past. Beyond the rivers that run<br />With blood, within a new-grange cast<br />That spirals out for everyone. A pagan<br />Christian land of hope that en-circles<br />Us in stone. This is the real blue-stone<br />The circle within a circle that heals<br />The hurt filled last and brings us all<br />Together into a cast of blood and bone.<br /><br />A symbol that calls on the dying done<br />This is the healing bluestone of each<br />And everyone. All this is seen through<br />A window where birds fly in the sun.<br /><br />An amulet of life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">PORTE AZUL</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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For Chona<o:p></o:p></div>
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Imagine, I’m just out of bed<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I want to go back to sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know life is joyous but where<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is life, all I feel is the waves from?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This pen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I create my own world in this home <o:p></o:p></div>
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Celled hell. My life
just came through <o:p></o:p></div>
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The door delivered in a pharmaceutical <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bag, it rests at my Achilles heel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t want to end my life<o:p></o:p></div>
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And give it all away but<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have to live in truth,<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is my only way<o:p></o:p></div>
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For me to have my say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Its sad I know but truth<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know is a bitter pill,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I must face that truth<o:p></o:p></div>
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To know these words<o:p></o:p></div>
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Will flow. There is
no<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rhyme or reason why<o:p></o:p></div>
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I survived this stroke<o:p></o:p></div>
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I only know that in <o:p></o:p></div>
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These words they are<o:p></o:p></div>
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Keeping me a-float.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Within a south china sea<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where memory buries<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me in sand by a cabin<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the shore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">IT TURNED MY HEAD AROUND</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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1971-75 they were the real punk <o:p></o:p></div>
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Years long before punk, the years<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of sea change within, my coming<o:p></o:p></div>
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And going of age, con-fusion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those were the days of being an<o:p></o:p><br />
Englishman put out of your home<br />
under an English flag and it</div>
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Burnt to the ground with a street<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of homes, living a tri-coloured life<br />
Being dragged
through a hedge back-<br />
wards to save you from a gun-battle<br />
only to see your sister’s boyfriend<br />
shot in the head, to see people shot<br />
on the streets and a murderer hail it<br />
‘for god and for Ulster’. Your Mother<br />
father and sister arrested and jailed,<br />
wanting to join up and kill the world<br />
but your to young. Going on the run<br />
with your dad, wondering what your<br />
running from, seeing the world<br />
through Patrick Kavanaghs eyes.<br />
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2.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A message boy leaving your bike and mess-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ages dripping with blood by the snooker<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hall wall, snookered by the pocket in <o:p></o:p></div>
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A black ball fight. Getting
a job with on<o:p></o:p></div>
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A street traders stall, only to learn that<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your boss is a pervert slipping his hand on<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your leg saying he’ll take you to Dublin for<o:p></o:p></div>
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A weekend. When he
went to lunch I sold<o:p></o:p></div>
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His stall put the money in my sky rocket<o:p></o:p></div>
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And shouted like a street trader every-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thing going cheap, I still have that fold-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Away wallpaper table, it has decorated<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three homes. That will
teach the perv<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who put his hand on my knee just like<o:p></o:p></div>
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A priest my sister’s boyfriend and a boy<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the street I chased and beat to a pulp,<o:p></o:p></div>
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The others go a dig on the head. I thought<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was walking around in the smell of lust<o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought there was something wrong with me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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War and queers I had no problem with them but<o:p></o:p></div>
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They had a problem with me, it was more than<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just a slip of the hand, it went beyond a joke.<o:p></o:p><br />
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3.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turning your back on god, seeing the exorcist<o:p></o:p></div>
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At fourteen and running all the way home, when<o:p></o:p></div>
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A nineteen year old girl wanted you to walk her home,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I said fuck that and ran.
Forget the insult cliché, ‘your Ma’<o:p></o:p></div>
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After that film it was ‘your mother sucks cocks in hell’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had nightmares after that and told my young brother<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I had to sneak him in under the box office kiosk<o:p></o:p></div>
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And had to watch with him again, we ran all the way home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was in David Bowies ‘time’ walking Lou Reed’s wild side<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their lyrics blew me away, I was becoming a man, I could<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hear my mating call, I wanted so much to be a man. All-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most fifty years later I see I was running from me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">WWW</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I woke suddenly startled<o:p></o:p></div>
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My world was covered in<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black dots like a world wide<o:p></o:p></div>
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Web of full stops, a womb-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dream turned to reality, as<o:p></o:p></div>
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If my sent-tense was finished<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I am still alive.
I blinked<o:p></o:p></div>
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To make sure I wasn’t dreaming<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then my carers came to care.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The black dots began to dis-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appear, I sat in the shower on<o:p></o:p></div>
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The shower chair placing these<o:p></o:p></div>
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Words in their best order.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It must have been the darkness in-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Side left over from the death of my <o:p></o:p></div>
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Stroke? It must be my
locked-in –<o:p></o:p></div>
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Syndrome coming out, decorating<o:p></o:p></div>
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My world as if I’m alive in a full stop<o:p></o:p></div>
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So this is an never ending pome that<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can never be finished until my due-ende.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the form this pome must take<o:p></o:p></div>
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To take me, I’ve just dropped my pen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Alden Nowlan said: “It is human<o:p></o:p></div>
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To look down on things that have fallen”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now I’ve got a black pen……………………….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Words<br /> Fall like<br />Snow-flakes,<br />Un-due-lating<br />An intricate<br />Design of me.<br /> Water<br /> On water<br />Rippling form.<br /> Waves<br />Of the ocean<br /> I come from.<br />The evolution<br />In me fossilised<br /> Words<br />That branch off<br /> Into you.</span></div>
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“there is only one problem left to</div>
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Man, and that is suicide”</div>
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Albert Camus</div>
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Words have be-come my life</div>
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My hyphen-ated blues, words</div>
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Are my very space, they full-</div>
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Filled my shoes. Now I try</div>
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To get words out, out of my</div>
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Locked-in-home, I could draw</div>
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You a picture of me sitting on</div>
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My throne. I am the king of</div>
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My castle, this is my dribble</div>
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My one sided story, these are</div>
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The words of a cripple, going</div>
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Round on a merry-go-round.</div>
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“WHY KILL TIME WHEN YOU</div>
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CAN KILL YOURSELF”</div>
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I was once a little boy, now</div>
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I’m a dis-abled man. We all</div>
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Try to find faith in us to be</div>
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One of the clan but the clan</div>
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Of the world is within us</div>
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Duned by a beach of sand.</div>
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A child with a bucket and spade</div>
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plays and the fort-ress is manned.</div>
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I’m looking out through into this</div>
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Window, just a man looking back</div>
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At days so pure and simple, after</div>
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I came from the sea.</div>
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“WHY KILL TIME WHEN YOU</div>
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CAN KILL YOURSELF”</div>
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I write down these words every-</div>
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Day to speak what I cannot say.</div>
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I look deep into the grey and words</div>
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Drift my one way, they are the clouds</div>
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Of my future, keeping the currents</div>
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Current. They are shapes drifting a-</div>
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Long, the very reason to rhyme </div>
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Memory in song. Dis-ability has</div>
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A firm grip on me but poetry is</div>
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Like sun-shine it's free. A trinity</div>
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Of children live within me, I rem-</div>
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Member the sound of the sea.</div>
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I’m just delving into the dark</div>
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To feel the sun-shine in me</div>
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Killing time but its killing me.</div>
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Shooting up lines of poetry</div>
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And graffiti on a gable wall.</div>
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“WHY KILL TIME WHEN YOU</div>
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CAN KILL YOURSELF”</div>
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Words from a Cabaret Voltaire song</div>
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Writ like existentialist Albert Camus</div>
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That pebble-dash my mind, Ridge-</div>
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Way: the walls are all torn down,</div>
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Forming the pre-fabbed castles</div>
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Of time.</div>
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Lou reed and Townes Van Zandt<o:p></o:p></div>
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You weren’t ‘Waiting for the man’,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or ‘Waiting around to die’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You gave us electric shock treat-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Creedmore and Galveston were<o:p></o:p></div>
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Put into action on the studio floor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You’re a ‘Far cry from dead’ U2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gave us a whole lot more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the New York country blues<o:p></o:p></div>
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They will never kill our sons, you<o:p></o:p></div>
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Took us from your ‘Blue Mask’<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the burnt out car of your home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have told us on vinyl that<o:p></o:p></div>
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We will never be cloned so I drink<o:p></o:p></div>
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A shot to u2 to live is to fly fly<o:p></o:p></div>
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Away from this dirty boulevard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You live on in memory and that <o:p></o:p></div>
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Will never be soiled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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are looking down on us and we are <o:p></o:p></div>
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ever be spoiled.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">POINT</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘truth is beauty’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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Keats<o:p></o:p></div>
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The noise of life<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is out there driving<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or strolling by, through<o:p></o:p></div>
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The square window.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They point and say,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>‘There’s where that<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Cripple poet lives’,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see them in my eye<o:p></o:p></div>
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But over-head jet<o:p></o:p></div>
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Streams go by<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pointing my way<o:p></o:p></div>
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To paradise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The galaxy of stars looks<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bright beyond my grey day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ten years now in limbo<o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking at the day streaming<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jet streams tracing them my way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Clouds of smoke deformed re-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Formed into paradise row, grey<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matter reforming into memory I know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forty five years of memory washed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Down the drain, I live another day<o:p></o:p></div>
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In these words that form my brain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Each day my mind gets stronger<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pushing through this locked- in-syn-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drome getting closer to you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Closer to the written word that<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gets closer to me, I live this<o:p></o:p></div>
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Memory, I write to make me see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The things I’ve done and dusted<o:p></o:p></div>
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Along my merry way, writing be-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Comes memory that lives in me<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today. Writing make
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The things that I have seen, words<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have furnished everything even<o:p></o:p></div>
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The landscapes of my dream.
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Words have been my saviour, they<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pulled away from life so true, pulled<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me out of the blue.
You only see<o:p></o:p></div>
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My wheelchair, this is my heart<o:p></o:p></div>
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And head, this is the dreams I write<o:p></o:p></div>
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To know that I’m not dead.
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Are the very words that come of<o:p></o:p></div>
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The light within my soul, and they<o:p></o:p></div>
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Search the cosmos for my locked- in home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><u>BIRTH-DAY</u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><u>for Andrea</u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The best birthday gift that I re-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Call was a loaf and a pot of jam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Ty two: The worst year of the troubles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">That will always be in my heart be-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Cause that was from my Mam. The other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">One I remember was a pipe from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">My sister dead, I am smoking it in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">My heart because she is in my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Give the gift of the humane touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And you’ll remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Not to know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">BRANCHING OUT</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The church bells ring<o:p></o:p></div>
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The birds in trees sing.</div>
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I’m trying to summon up<o:p></o:p></div>
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The light that brings my sight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The church bells ring<o:p></o:p></div>
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The birds sing to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was once a bird<o:p></o:p></div>
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That lives within a tree<o:p></o:p></div>
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A fish that spawns<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the voice of<o:p></o:p></div>
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The stroke gene, this is<o:p></o:p></div>
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My tale of woe that<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lives and breath’s in me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grow, grow into a memory<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the world will know<o:p></o:p></div>
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That we are right and wrong<o:p></o:p></div>
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To live in dark and light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is good and evil in us<o:p></o:p></div>
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Singing from another tree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">HYPHEN-ATED BREATH (A BLUES POME)</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I woke up this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a black stippled room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Darkness from my dream-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scape, my bride and doom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My wheelchair beside me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My chariot of gloom, dis-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abled parts within my living-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tomb. I cannot blame any-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One this is my living-room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words have been my save-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">iour, love from my kids’ eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each day I roll the dice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And writing takes me here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spinning my web of poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On everything I fear. Dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is light and I’ve seen life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And death, it’s just a hyphen-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ated breath. Light is dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And words are write to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suffocate the page. This is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not a muddy water or a lone-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some lonely blues. This is mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To give to you without holes in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My shoes. I’m not walking here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From Memphis to give you save-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">iour blues, I’m just living upon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This day and this is my wheel-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chair truth. I cannot blame no-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One for this, this is my living-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Room. I don’t want material<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strife, I can suffer without<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A wife. You can keep your<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honour and money I’m doing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This on truth and write that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brings sunshine to my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">WONDER-WONDER-WONDER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">It had been a long grey hard winter, he fought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">dependent person. The sun split the trees and cracked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">on to fill his day with poetry art and wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">He had been through the darkest days of ex-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Is-tense that pushed him mentally to the very</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Limits until he hit the brick wall of life and death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">The slender imaginary line we draw in our heads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Where he fought suicide head on and glared it down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">To turn it on its head to be a positive force within.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">He no longer feared death or dying he knew it was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">All part of living, he had been there and wore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">the black t-shirt. He had been to the point where</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">death deals you a hand and you gamble to live is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">to die and so he died to live and as he said to the psyche-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">at-trick nurse after waking from his suicide. He knew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">he would be there today talking to her, he gambled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">and won and woke up in the land of positive suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">He knew what he was doing when he took the over-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Dose and if he survived then this would be the first day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Of the rest of his life and would never need to go to that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Line ever again. The stain of piss was upon him like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">The mark of Cain but he knew he had to live with dis-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Ability. The colour of the day shot through a spiders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Web, something that denotes darkness but it shot through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Like an elixir, so intricate even an engineer could</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Not construct from a tech drawing. The colours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Of the day shone purple, blue and wonder.</span></div>
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Like a child suckling on the tit<o:p></o:p></div>
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of purity, he sucked his way<o:p></o:p></div>
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Was almost empty when the carers<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have got to give a poem something of yourself and a little time and respect before you can wear the poem like the scales of Elizabeth bishop's fish or kick William Stafford's dark over the edge and listen to the wilderness, finding a way into a poem so that it expresses a truth, finding the poems essential loneliness.</div>
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I think its very respectful how the American writers pay homage to their favourite writers before they begin to read a word of their own, we need to learn from that and give thanks to the writers who inspired us. The way that Ted Hughes seen the fox thought on the page, poetry is a very solitary act, poetry is like the souls spoke on a wheelchair turning through life at a different motion, all words are disabled and need care to appear on the page but then its time to share the poem, to much emphasis for me is put on plagiarism and copyright and I think we have to learn to trust each other.</div>
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Poets aren't marched into a stanza like a regimental troop, ok we pay homage to the soldier war poets but we are breaking away from that regimental conformity that corals us into nice neat stanzas, the road to poetry isn't along the road of war upon war, we have got to break free of old regimes and follow the beat poets the poets of the day into the new refreshing poems of tomorrow. We are being cloned by the past but we are moving forward with a captive mind into what Chezslaw Milosz called 'a more spacious form' only with men like him are we free of old regimental way's that feed our poetry and our education into a dog eat dog system.</div>
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Only with our darkness and negativity of the past can we turn this muck to gold and break the shackles of the past and step into the enlightened future that awards people without the foot stomping circus act, we are not a pack of performing animals we are a group of civilised people called humanity without the brainwashed divides of war. <span style="text-align: right;">It's time to share things freely, honour and respect doesn't come down to how much money you have in your pocket, ok,</span><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><span style="text-align: right;">we have to live in a consumerist society but don't let greed rule the day ok we need a little to get by but its getting out of hand.</span></div>
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the trees. Words have opened doors for me</div>
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it in, like a wave upon the ocean or life that's</div>
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today not a breeze does blow. Rhyme is in</div>
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the trees of yesterday when they were bent</div>
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resemble the tree. its the beauty of nature</div>
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reaching into me and you. Sunshine and shadow</div>
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Washed dressed and wheel chaired</div>
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ability. I don't know if I'm coming</div>
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Queens butterfly, one day I will be free</div>
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Finding a sweet wrapper in an empty lonely</div>
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hall that reminds me of you, my Grandson.</div>
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The hard man woke that morning </div>
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people were punching the sky, a little boy</div>
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ran along punching the air yelling the war is over.</div>
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and a mug of tea, Bridy his wife said'isn't it brilliant we have peace at last','not you to' he said and stuck his head into the paper, flicked through the peace to see who died and on to the GG form.</div>
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the commotion, whets going on he said going down the stairs.</div>
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'we've got peace at last' said his wife jumping around like a school-</div>
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'Fools', he said and closed the door and went in to have his Belfast</div>
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bap and mug of tea at the table with the Irish news with words</div>
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of peace on every page, he stopped at the obituaries before going on</div>
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to the GG form. What about our Gerry and our alibi said Patsy and</div>
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the hard man, 'they fought and died for today', said their wives said,</div>
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huh said the hard man and Patsy and they buried their heads in the papers.</div>
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The table they sat beside felt like a table in the maze prison and their</div>
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wives were in prison guard uniforms swinging key's on a chain attached</div>
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to their waist whistling the sash, their brothers alibi and Gerry sat by</div>
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the tables circa 1972. Patsy and Gerry killed a cop and a brit and got 25</div>
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years, the hard man and alibi killed two I.R.A. men and done 10 and 12 years. </div>
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dark glasses and a gun, Patsy looked out and almost say himself holding an armalite</div>
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where it said underneath, 'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace'. how can you</div>
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put a gun to somes head and have peace the next day they thought. </div>
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Both men went through their day done a few 5 bob bets up the street and studied the form</div>
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in the rolled up papers in their back pockets, had two beer and watched east enders</div>
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and the bullshit news celebrating peace, remembering all those years ago watching</div>
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the shooting results every day as if they were living the form on scene around six</div>
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everyday. Bridy and Anne said I was talking to Maggie up the street said she might</div>
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call around half nine, 'you know I don't like that fenian loving bitch in my house',</div>
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bours Patsy said that brit loving bitch isn't coming into this house and both men</div>
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stormed upstairs saying ,,I done fucking time for this damned day', slammed the door </div>
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and sat on the corner of their beds pondering peace listening to the girls laugh downstairs. </div>
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Bridy and Anne went to the bottom of the stairs and shouted to their men down to join in </div>
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the craic, you could hear their laughter out on the street. </div>
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abled blues and they have</div>
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stopped the use of my shoes.</div>
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This is the northern kell-tic</div>
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blues not written in a 12 bar</div>
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but it screams of eullian</div>
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flow undulating inside my head</div>
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with the lilt of a song that</div>
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remembers the dead, the Lagan</div>
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and the Liffey go out to the sea</div>
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meeting current waves of you</div>
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and of me</div>
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lets stop these bonfires and talk</div>
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of war, let us drift on the island</div>
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of peace let us lilt out to sea</div>
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where we can see hope increase</div>
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these are the crossroads of my</div>
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estuary bed, these are the words</div>
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that come from the dead</div>
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I need aid to get in and out</div>
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of bed and I need aid for my</div>
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I've seen darkness stipple</div>
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my shed and I need this</div>
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song to remember the dead.</div>
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I've seen darkness like you</div>
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have seen light, Ive seen men</div>
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fall that didn't have a right.</div>
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this isn't from the delta by</div>
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Mississippi John Hurt</div>
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this is from Ireland, the North</div>
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with a lambeg/bohran beat</div>
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I will always have this disabled</div>
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head but living in peace will</div>
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get me out of bed, better than before</div>
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this isn't depressing its just life</div>
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lets give sentimentality a kick</div>
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in the ass and relish the moment</div>
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and the green green grass</div>
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of home.</div>
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maybe you should sing this twice</div>
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to get it into your head and into</div>
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your bed- sweet dreams.</div>
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'found death in life, may find life in death'</div>
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A residue of darkness</div>
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lives within us. I wrote</div>
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about the womb dream</div>
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and the blotches of dark</div>
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long before my stroke.</div>
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Caused by deep trauma</div>
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in birth or being lost with-</div>
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in yourself during stroke etc.</div>
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There must be millions of us</div>
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walking around unable to talk</div>
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about our darkness, this is not</div>
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evil or sinister only to much light</div>
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can warp the dark. When I wake</div>
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from a deep sleep my room is</div>
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stippled in dark but there is al-</div>
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ways the dawn breaking through</div>
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my sight. We live in a world of</div>
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light and dark and society can't</div>
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always be right because it shifts</div>
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back and forth, gets warped by</div>
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sentimentality and shadows of fear</div>
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appear. For example Keats and Cole-</div>
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ridge lived in life with death and in</div>
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their sight were right. I'm trying</div>
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to live with my darkness and that's</div>
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POSITIVE SUICIDE</div>
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Peter woke that morning early and lay there paralysed flat on his back in the profile bed looking at the shadows on the ceiling, it was still dark outside so it must be five or six am he thought. He lay there creating a world from the shadows on the ceiling, thoughts of suicide entered his mind again just like it did since he took the stroke that paralysed his body and his speech ten years ago. He had survived the stroke that was swimming through his veins, after the massive stroke that almost killed him and put him in hospital for a year he took a mini stroke that attacked any power he had in his right side so now he carried around two limbs of meat and a sexual organ that could no longer play a tune, he had no feeling no more. He lay there thinking suicide is the only solution, the only way out of this hell. Before he took the stroke whenever he had a problem or hit a brick wall of thought he got out pen and paper and wrote pros and cons on the top of the page and ticked to see which one won. This disability was different he thought, he had never come to a brick wall in his mind that had no way out, it was as if he was driving down a one way street and there was no turn off. he was neither a pessimist or a optimist but to be a writer you had to be a bit of both he was a realist, in his mind the pros and cons page floating in an ungravitational pull and the cons were winning. He cleared everything from his mind and told himself ok if im going to do this I have to be certain. His father being left in a basket by a door was his first con, his sons his grandsons and his mum were a pro so he ticked it in his head. Dawn began to rise and the sun spilt in through the gaps of the vertical blinds like the shadowed bars on a prison cell, even the lights positivity is showing me the negative way to go, down. </div>
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The disabled bungalow that he lived in on the disabled cul-de-sac felt like a prison cell only there was no time of for good behaviour and no parole or good Friday agreement, it felt like he was doing his fathers time like the internment of the soul, living his inner bastard life. Just then two girls called and stood at each side of the bed one to raise him to sit at the side of the bed and one to hold him steady as he had lost all his balance and although he could stand he would never be able to walk.</div>
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A week or so before he went for a check up to the hospital and just before he was examined by a physio nurse and a consultant, he said people can you tell me and I want the truth please has the N.H.S. and the whole medical profession given up on me, I have to stand to go to the toilet and get into bed at night and yet my whole physio programme was stopped and I haven't had physio in three years I used to go swimming every week with a nurse and stand in a standing frame so my good leg was getting stronger and was able to support me but now its getting weaker and weaker and im all slouched over when being dressed. The consultant flicked the thick file on her table and said the N.H.S. cant do nothing for you and we have no money anyway. Peter went to get his ambulance home feeling deflated knowing the N.H.S. had given up on him, these were the people that saved his life ten years ago when he took the stroke and now they had just left him out dry and on top of that he received a letter the day before saying he was refused for a motability grant to pay for the adaptations for a car. All his mobility and independence had been taken away from him, he said hello and goodbye to the ambulance men and smiled when he had to but he felt like driving into a brick wall. </div>
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Peter closed the blue door behind him he didn't feel sad or depressed just disappointed that the whole care system had given up on him. The girls washed and dressed him made his breakfast and left him looking out the window, he remember the year before having a car and being able no go to Lough Neagh and have a coffee and read a book or go sainsburys get his shopping buy a magazine and get a coffee before going home or just driving down the motorway with the music on full blast it was a great release for his mind of independence. He had to give up the car as he couldn't afford the payments so when it came to the point of his bank balance deciding on food or petrol one had to go, he pondered the sky smoking his pipe wondering why the dla only give him middle rate care because he lives alone. With the aid of a leg lifter a bed rail and a grabber he had found a way of getting himself into bed and the exercise was making his back stronger. I don't understand he thought, the whole point of the care system was to create a better quality of life but everything was working against him. </div>
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When he first took the stroke and was released from hospital he met a lovely phillipino girl on the internet and asked him to go there so one night he decided to take whatever money he had and find some happiness, he got up the next asked his son bought a ticket and got his friend to put him on a plane and without travel insurance he flew to the Philippines he lived there for four months thinking one day he would get better. Spent all his money building a future got married and flew home to set up a home for his wife coming over only to be told that he would never walk again and that his wife wouldn't be allowed to come over and look after him because the government pay him and state that you cant use that money to bring someone into the country. After six years of communicating on yahoo by web cam her there and him here unable to work and support her they had the marriage annulled.</div>
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he went from room to room looking for a pro to counter act the cons that were building in his mind only to find disabled aids like hand rails manual wheelchairs, disabled toilets commodes raised benches profile bed grabbers, I cant live without help, he put a Lou Reed CD on followed by the best of 2013 and looked out the window and watched the cars go up and down life, life was going on beyond his realm, this is like being on a one way street and suicide is the only way out so if I do this and survive ill have to change the way I live, I cant do this alone. he pondered the window as the last track played called goodbye, goodbye, now have I got the balls this is positive suicide. he came to the conclusion that suicide was the only way out or in, there's no one to blame for this there's nowhere to go there's nothing you have to do life doesn't owe you nothing and you owe life nothing or anyone. he went online to the Amazon store bought his sons three games put a suicide note on his keyboard saying no regrets and pondered through his day with this thought in mind.</div>
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He went into the kitchen and emptied his blister pack and filled a glass of assorted tablets and two strips of aspirin in all around a hundred tablets that should be enough he said and took them and a bottle of pure orange got into bed and said here goes nothing and gagged taking the tabs and pure orange, if I don't die at least ill get high.</div>
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After an hour or so he felt like he was drifting in and out of reality, he forget how to spell a simple word on his phone then everything fell into a beige sea of waves and circuits began switching of in his mind either he was falling into death or he was out of his mind, he closed his eyes gripped the bed rail closed his eyes and fell into darkness, ka sa ra he said goodbye cruel world.</div>
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He woke and it was morning the sunshine shone on the wall and two girls were by his bed he felt all groggy laughing and saying ive seen the light pointing to the wall, ive took an over dose and they rushed to phone an ambulance. I was chatting and laughing and flirting with the carers until the ambulance came and I was flirting with them girls, I was out of my head I felt stoned relieved that I was still here. they rushed me off to A'N'E and flushed water through my system, I felt as if I had ecstasy I didn't care what they done I had prepared my self for this I knew I would be here, they flushed my system with drips then put me in another ward. while there I couldn't sleep so I just rested knowing I was in the right place, I felt safe there. a psychiatrist nurse sat by my bed side and said can I ask you a few questions I said ok ill tell you a story first ok and she took notes: first I told her about my father being left on a doorstep then I told her about the people I had seen being killed as a child in north Belfast during the troubles then I told her about having the stroke gene in my blood then I told about my father dying and leaving me in his bastard life then I told her about my sister committing suicide in 2000 then I told her about all of the above how the N.H.S. gave up on me the D.L.A. only awarding me the middle rate so I couldn't afford the adaptations on a car my wife not being allowed entry. </div>
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This is the pome I didn't want to write.</div>
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it burst out of me like an over-dose</div>
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please take me out of this hell-hole.</div>
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to a higher realm. I must live in</div>
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my negative positivity this wheel-</div>
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I'm doing my fathers time, living</div>
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his inner bastard life, an internment</div>
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of the soul, my life is interrogating me</div>
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sending down a black noise, I have to</div>
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live with, it is my black hole holding</div>
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my inner light. give me the humane</div>
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touch not a police escort as if it's nine-</div>
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teen fifty, I have the right to die like</div>
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you have the right to live, I don't live</div>
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your moral code. I don't want to write</div>
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are the words that hold my truth like life</div>
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within my own stare. These words of my</div>
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only hope of ever pulling through.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">We are living in a sentimental un-reality</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">packed up and priced up to go</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">on living in a enlightenment of darkness.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br />Ticking the box that says, I don't know.</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">God and Darwin are dancing, were possessed</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">in a conflicting parade, time is in a state of un-</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">turning and we act as if we don't grow.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">We are animal and wonder divine, the know-<br />ledge of sorrow is now or never, we have to<br />start to end. Memory keeps on delivering, so<br />let us live on this island un-divided.</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">On the hyphen of un-reality, on un-real cheap-</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">lights and false snow. I am living in no time</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">but there's millions of people like me.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Lets have a thought for the living disabled.<br />Where did the values of N.H.S. go, it<br />began for the people from a depressing war.</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">Has it toppled just like a statue we don't need</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">anymore?</span></span></div>
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No regrets-07251350053.</div>
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High as a kite, Wow!</div>
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Down occlusion, beige</div>
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Hemmed in by the blue curtain</div>
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N.H.S. No help
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The same ones who stopped my</div>
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place? we need to think beyond</div>
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the negative there is a positive be-</div>
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when I woke from my stroke/coma my brain was soft without
form like</div>
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porridge in my head, 45 years of memory I thought were lost
in the dark.</div>
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I began to construct a poem
from what I seen that day or imagined,</div>
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a flower and a butterfly, speechless I tried to write in a
left handed childish</div>
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scrawl, before the stroke I was right handed but now was
paralysed and rested</div>
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on my lap with my right arm and leg like a meat parcel.</div>
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I began to form the words into a poem in a left handed baby
scrawl but the moment </div>
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found a form and the moment wrote the form, it might have
looked like it was done with an infants hand but at least it was a form. everyday I went to the window and captured
inspiration for a year while the other patients watched TV. by the time I was released on a trail basis
every Saturday to my mothers home my mind was strong enough to be released into
an independent living centre, my mind was strong enough</div>
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to deal with my illness and realise that no one was to blame
for this accident only me, I lived to large and this was the price I paid, I
had a wonderful life and three magic kids even because the stroke was in my
blood I couldn't blame my mum and dad they gave me my wonderful life so I dealt
with my recovery through my writing.</div>
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the more I read and wrote and painted the stronger my mind
became and I began to see that and the more I wrote I remembered flickers of
memory began to flicker memory I thought was dead. I was able to face my disability head on and even relive the
darkness to strengthen my will to face each day and even conquer that hurdle of
man, suicide. ok I know ill never walk
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this darkness with the help of friends, lagan and lapwing
press both took my manuscripts and formed them into books, thank you pat Dennis
and René. that was a great step for me
like stepping back into reality, that has given me the confidence to write this
blog and give you a taste of my world, the moments that write my form.</div>
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I know it has been dark at times but like life itself we
have to give to get and sometimes that can be a hard road and a hard pill to
swallow. my next plan is to write</div>
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about the magic moments I faced in life.</div>
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life is full of light and dark and dark is as light as light
even lighter, I thought my brain was
dead without memory but the more I read the more I remember. the brain is a wonderful organ with its own
internal hard drive and even lifting a cup or reading one sentence can make the
brain remember doing that, all you brain injury patients lift that paper or
that book even if you only read one sentence its a start. my mother had 5 strokes and she writes
articles from the newspaper, I get this from her will and she's still alive and
writing and reading to keep her mind active so write to remember not</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> to forget.</span></b></div>
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THE CITY OF GALAPAGOS</div>
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<i>'different colors made
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Lou Reed</div>
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Creedmore gave you the electric-</div>
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shock treatment, a session of blowing</div>
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your mind, being someone else but </div>
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you were Lou, Lou, Lou.
The man</div>
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of black rainbow's, prescribing hope</div>
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on the fringes of society.
We are</div>
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waiting for the man to script what</div>
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moral society cant because its to</div>
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moral. The man of
evolution sat</div>
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on the razors edge like a Darwin in</div>
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the city of Galapagos reflecting what</div>
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we are, a gender in a un-gendered jungle.</div>
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They put the blue in the blue mask but</div>
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you shot up the colour in you. You de-</div>
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fied a culture and gave us the Warhol</div>
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two fingers to a fucked up society that</div>
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was already fucked up, a punk who took</div>
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no prisoners. Were
waiting for your words</div>
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second coming, different colours made of</div>
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tears, a rainbow of light in your dead eyes.</div>
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We remember going on a Lou Reed bender</div>
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that lasted ten years at least, we were bouncing</div>
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off the walls, thanx Lou your rhythm blue</div>
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our minds and gave us a reality rush. Creed-</div>
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more, you gave us <b>CREED-MORE</b>
and were still </div>
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rushing on your run, when you put a beat into our veins </div>
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and we felt just like Jesus' son, things weren't ever the
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lou Reed said it all and more, his truth Creedmore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">ABUSE</span></div>
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Teachers, priests, dentists and head-</div>
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masters. This was
back in the day</div>
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when they were allowed to abuse you:</div>
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I remember a teacher grabbing me by</div>
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the scuff and putting me up against a black-</div>
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board and punching me in the face, he got</div>
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a chair across his back.
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I was dyslexic with
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what he was saying talking about log rhythms.</div>
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A science teacher who flicked snots at you.</div>
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He threw me down two flights of stairs, i took</div>
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him to court and got him disbanded.</div>
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A priest who asked me to stay after class</div>
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thinking I was a damaged little boy from</div>
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Belfast, he put his hand on my leg and got</div>
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a dig in the head and i ran.</div>
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A dentist who held me down with his knee</div>
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across my chest to administer gas and pull</div>
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a tooth. he also got
a dig in the head and i ran.</div>
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A headmaster (the bat) who gave me 24 slaps</div>
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with a cane for breaking a window, after 12</div>
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i was on my knees crying.
I tried to break 24</div>
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more until he expelled me.</div>
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WALLOWING</div>
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Doing my fathers time.</div>
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Entombed, interned, </div>
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The only white noise here</div>
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is black silence. I
must</div>
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wallow in this cell, theres<br />
no way out of this pigsty</div>
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wallowing in this swill.</div>
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HINGED<br />
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Hanging out there</div>
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on the edge, in a seam</div>
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of light-ajar.
Holding up</div>
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a door in space and time.</div>
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I'm like an astronaut in zero</div>
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gravity but I'm not fixed</div>
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or floating, I'm flat on my back</div>
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paralysed un-hinged waiting </div>
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for a carer to care.</div>
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Houston we have a problem.</div>
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N.H.S.</div>
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The N.H.S. is out there</div>
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it's a big organ-ni-nation.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">No help service.</span><br />
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Alone walking the black paths</div>
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of disability, a carer going to</div>
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care for a man who doesn't care?</div>
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lost in a world of dark roads</div>
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and grey gutters.
Even the sun-</div>
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shine is no good to no one.</div>
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I ponder the key-pad and steady</div>
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myself, entering a world I know</div>
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nothing of.
'Morning', I can't even</div>
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say 'good morning', 'what good is</div>
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it he would answer'.
I got him</div>
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showered and dressed and left him</div>
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looking out at the world beyond</div>
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the breakfast table looking in-</div>
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to the clear blue sky to see dark-</div>
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ness, I left him seeing from his</div>
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wheelchair, paralysed unable</div>
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to walk or talk.
went on to</div>
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the next call on my rota.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">wishing I was dead, I think?</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">AUBADE</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I wake
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of
Februrary eats my eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I go to
my room and scan<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
fear of death, of dying<o:p></o:p></div>
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explodes
like flash bulbs,<o:p></o:p></div>
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two
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One is
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when I
was a child in a pram<o:p></o:p></div>
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wrapped
tight in a home spun<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matinee
coat, oblivious<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the
camera, was I looking<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the
sky, my mother or did<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see
something else?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know
now why I want to cry,<o:p></o:p></div>
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this is
the eve of my fathers <o:p></o:p></div>
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death
nine years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grief
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In this
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of
death I took of you<o:p></o:p></div>
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in your
coffin, rosary beads<o:p></o:p></div>
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entwined
around clean fingers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My desk
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my
words images<o:p></o:p></div>
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of what
I've always known<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">silk-white enclosing you.</span></div>
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to become better than the better to have</div>
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nice houses and bigger and better cars.</div>
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and war ridden society.
My only hope</div>
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I have lived</div>
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half my life within my fathers lie with-</div>
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when I hear it and trust the truth sayer. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16910442933404751344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645543738448557684.post-76194643004468349042013-10-30T05:36:00.000-07:002013-10-30T05:36:05.139-07:00<br />
LIVESTOCK<br />
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My breakfast cereal of corn-<br />
flakes and weetabix was in<br />
a bigger bowl like a bucket<br />
of pig swill tipped into a troth<br />
in the middle of a field.<br />
<br />
I got stuck in .<br />
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<br />
<br />
LULU AND YOU<br />
<br />
Pin-point accuracy, to know where<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wks0Rell0Jn4ak2muX9MaeQrWt-fM6h3a_xtyBypRfQeGV6H9zTs9-9XBgIW4u2jN9tqQisfqyV31u-F7LJROIN6f0zCbXZIkXsbbSdjtREigsxthCvQdDOK6L4D18QOgy2xLgiS3Qqt/s1600/1157557_10151846579785953_49086214_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wks0Rell0Jn4ak2muX9MaeQrWt-fM6h3a_xtyBypRfQeGV6H9zTs9-9XBgIW4u2jN9tqQisfqyV31u-F7LJROIN6f0zCbXZIkXsbbSdjtREigsxthCvQdDOK6L4D18QOgy2xLgiS3Qqt/s320/1157557_10151846579785953_49086214_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>your at, where you been- Lou Reed<br />
had it, Stephen Hawkins has it.<br />
<br />
Mapped in the cosmos, the angel<br />
through the constellations the tra-<br />
jectory of different colours made<br />
of tears, he had it man, he has it.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16910442933404751344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645543738448557684.post-73128994963481229782013-10-28T11:38:00.001-07:002013-10-29T15:00:34.953-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> a blog of art to find hope</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16910442933404751344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645543738448557684.post-46403653576071784972013-10-27T07:52:00.002-07:002013-10-28T09:02:55.063-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I smoked the pipe for Lou Reed</div>
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and the smoke went up in smoke.</div>
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his spirit climbed the walls like</div>
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I know where I was when I heard</div>
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I got a phone call from my ex wife</div>
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saying it said on the news Lou reed</div>
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was dead, I was writing a poem called</div>
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with-in listening to a Lou reed song</div>
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called the day john Kennedy died</div>
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I stopped and cried.
I woke this</div>
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morning raw eyed, <i>maybe
I dreamt<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>there was a point to
life and the human<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>race.</i> a shadow shimmered like smoke</div>
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on the wall, a new day as if a dark shadow</div>
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was lifted from me, I cant explain but</div>
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I felt good in myself, I could hear music</div>
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playing in my head.
Like me he loved</div>
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reality, the autumn leaves fell outside</div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know what I want to do, play Lou.</span><br />
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I've been laughing and crying</div>
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with suicide, she's been flirting</div>
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with me. Now its time to call</div>
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it a day but I cant do it anyway.</div>
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These tears are all I have to help</div>
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me navigate this unnamed time- </div>
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zone of disability that stops me</div>
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in my tracks.</div>
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I can see you in double or</div>
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treble going about your able-</div>
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life. I'm living through these</div>
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tears in blue and black and white.</div>
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Life is like an optical illusion</div>
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that leaves me jet lagged, dis-</div>
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seeds of hope.</div>
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My hat is like</div>
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two tear.</div>
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Your not getting</div>
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<u>OVERMAN</u></div>
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The poet is in the tree's, he can see </div>
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beyond autumn leaves.
Man can't</div>
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see beyond man but he can see in</div>
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to the blue and white shadow, he</div>
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can see the raindrops of light. His</div>
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in-sight has seen beyond his own</div>
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delight, he can see beyond me be</div>
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yond you, he will be back in spring.</div>
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Now, his features must fall. I will</div>
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have to record this in paint before</div>
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I lose it all. The
man in the leaves</div>
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has been true to me for words to be</div>
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true to you, remember-you got to</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">POSITIVE NEGATIVITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I want to begin
this essay in a negative space, my fathers death, when my father died he left
me a gift, I began to write my truth and through my truth I began to see that I
was looking at life back to front. My
fathers death took me years to get over because I was looking at it the wrong
way round, one day alone I drove to hannstown graveyard, sat by his grave
overlooking Belfast that brought happy and sad memories back, we had the
greatest chat we ever had in our lives and I went away with a great poem and I
still think today that its one of my best poems because its the words of
truth. For me its a tiny glimmer of
light that woke me to the contentment of my Fathers death and from that day on
I was to accept my Fathers death as part of life that I could live with. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Light on the Stones</span></b></div>
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I retrace your
final journey now in a blue car,</div>
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Not black, alone
on the motorway.</div>
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Passing the Maze
prison the stench of my engine</div>
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Overheating is
like gunpowder, spent shells,</div>
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Lingering, your
dream of Irish freedom.</div>
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I climbed the
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Above the
violent divided the city,</div>
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Above the
peace-line that stood between us</div>
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In the living
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Your plot all
weeds,</div>
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And wild grass
cries out for order.</div>
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The fallen
wooden cross bears no name;</div>
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But you are
there. Like a sculptor</div>
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With clay I
reach inward, my hands</div>
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As delicate as
salmon wings riding</div>
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The white water,
struggling</div>
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The strong
currents of grief.</div>
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I brush the
soiled tears from your eyes</div>
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And you wake in
me, swimming</div>
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And glistening
in mine. My hands</div>
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Shape the clay
moulding our wounded past,</div>
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Emerging in the
light on the stones. </div>
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Me and my father never really got on in life,
to me he was the biggest bastard in the world but i loved the olde fucker, he
might always be the trouble in my life but he also gave me life love and
happiness and that's magic because I'm able to think the right way around. We have been taught by religion and the
regimental education system to accept life as birth marriage and death and to
toe the line and march through life like our great grandfathers and our Fathers
Father's and it's that tradition that holds us back in life, my Father is
interned by soil and death is his special powers act. We've got to stop thinking of the past as a life of depression
that hinders us from stepping into this world of magic peace. Did you ever think you would been here in
peace? I didn't, life was so difficult filled with death I couldn't see beyond
the streets I grew up in, North
Belfast, there was so much hatred
instilled in me, we all have hurt within us but if we look at life as the song
says the right way round through the death of us and our loved ones and
celebrate their cause and our own to see life before the soil when they were
wed to happiness before life became the only life we knew full of death and
dying but our cause is life and love for our children to bloom.</div>
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If we look at
life through death marriage and birth we see life from the perspective that
delivers a package of happiness, like a bonus because you faced your own death</div>
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before it
happened and the darkness isn't so bad or sad,
its your truth so face it and be</div>
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come reborn with
a smile and a tear of reality, truth.
Laughing and crying are the same emotion a human mechanism that balances
form, to keep us on the straight and narrow giving our minds a true direction
of truth. This is reality from my
truth, there are no rainbows or peace doves or haloes here just truth. I believe the day my Father died he gave me
this gift of writing my truth and you dont have to believe it, just listen to
the song and read these words. lets
stop thinking of death and dying as a
dark and depressing moment and take the gift of life from the dead and dying and
let our children bloom. Bertrand
Russell the great humanist sceptic said:
'it could happen tomorrow, if man pursues his own happiness and not the
misery of others.'</div>
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When I first
began this gift of writing I was doing a reading in Sligo in a poetry cafe I
had arranged on holiday there that summer.
I would read anywhere for anyone for nothing, I felt that poetry was
like sunshine it was given to me free not for honours money or ego, for being
true to me that balanced my mind to be true to you. I stood up and began to read
'the light on the stones' but i was being heckled at a poetry reading,
the girls at the back were shouting up when are you going to read your happy
poems, I stopped and said sorry I lived in the real world these are my happy
poems.</div>
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I never really
understood the definition of happy and sad poems, I thought it was all poetry
and it didn't seperate that which is defined.
I put my poems away and walked out leaving them to read silly poems that
weren't even laughable about esat digi phones, i laughed and walked away
smirking, maybe one day they'll get it, afterall we all have a father that will
die some day but were brain washed not to talk about reality.</div>
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I walked out and
felt sorry for the girls who lived in their middle class world of sadness, at least they heard two stanzas so maybe my
positive negativity is rubbing off into their silly sentimentality that is
smothering our true selves. My truth is
helping me too see me in my truth, ten
years ago i took this stroke that has led me down this dark road, lying in a
hospital bed thinking i was next to die, I didn't even think i had six weeks to
live but look how far ive come, the brain is a wonderful organ</div>
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that can restore
form and memory if you feed it truth.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I've been laughing and crying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">with suicide, she's been flirting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">with me. Now its time to call</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br />it a day but I cant do it anyway.<br /><br />These tears are all I have to help<br />me navigate this unnamed time-<br />zone of disability that stops me<br />in my tracks.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;">I can see you in double or<br />treble going about your able-<br />life. I'm living through these<br />tears in blue and black and white.<br /><br />Life is like an optical illusion<br />that leaves me jet lagged, dis-<br />orientated, these are my<br />seeds of hope.</span></span><br />
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Our house was the centre of the uni-</div>
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verse, I was eight in August 69'.</div>
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Etna, the street behind was Jamaica St</div>
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and the one behind that was Havana.</div>
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My brother had a little tin camera like</div>
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the greatest photo I have ever seen.</div>
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That morning my eye was the view finder</div>
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blinking the moon landing on T.V.</div>
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And a line of armoured cars coming into</div>
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took me in behind the sand-bags on the way</div>
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to school to beat me with rubber hoses</div>
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and ask what my Da' was doing last night,</div>
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little did they know that I would never tell</div>
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even if they killed me, I'm still waiting</div>
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I might have been young but I grew up fast</div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>AN ODE TO AUTUMN</b></span><br />
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<i>'I knew that if I
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To all you language buffs this is not</div>
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an insult its an experiment, I am not</div>
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ANGLOW</div>
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I sah Sean Keats in the crann</div>
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his ceannaithe were so sharp</div>
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like a man upon nádúr fluttering</div>
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a wind so dense and fuar sa gheim-</div>
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cloud adrifting by the harshness</div>
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Like leaves upon a crann within</div>
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a budding le feiceáil, but life will</div>
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titim and ardú again. from an-</div>
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it looks like Seamus Heaney</div>
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I saw John Keats in the tree</div>
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his features were so sharp</div>
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like a man upon a nature.</div>
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Fluttering upon a wind so</div>
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dense and cold with winter.</div>
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clouds adrifting by in</div>
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showing us the way to go</div>
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like leaves upon a tree</div>
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within a budding sight, but</div>
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life will fall to rise again</div>
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like leaves.</div>
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from another angle</div>
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it looked like Seamus </div>
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Death of a naturalist.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A WHITE BIRD PASSED</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A BLACKBIRD AS IF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SAYING HI!.</span><br />
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IT NEVER SOARED FOR</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ANIMOSITY,IT EVEN SHOWED</span><br />
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ITS ALL HAPPENING UP THERE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OUT THERE IN THE WILD</span><br />
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I am the son of a bastard son, my father was found in a
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a life that was a lie he didn't have to make my life a
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o' pressers boot, other kids have puberty, school and social
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my fathers boot standing on my head. I couldn't wait to get away from him, when I
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was young it wasn't so bad but when I got older and realised
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that I was a useless waste of space. He was like the devil on your shoulder, when
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created my own language to call him a cunt and a fucker, I
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didn't even know what I was saying and every opportunity I
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the fuckers food and stole his money from his pockets and
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devious wee fucker friend told my older sister when asked
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in the empty houses smoking cigarettes and she told my
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grounded me for three days.
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above the out house so I used to put a pillow under the
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have done anything for him but he taught me to be a crafty
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of life. Although he
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know it, he lived in a world that was very negative and you
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clip on the ear and the whole community knew you were a
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blessing, I suppose you couldn't blame her she was full of
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help that was her basic gift. I am the middle one of six children all born in different </div>
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years, they separated after 30 years and some members of the
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but didn't realise that he was a twisted man who knew no
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abuse my mothers good nature. All he had to do was stop lying and living his Belfast </div>
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hard man way and let his guard down to let people in. I think that's why he hated me </div>
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so much he was jealous of my free truthful way, he always
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her and hounded her into marriage. My father was a sad man poor guy didn't know </div>
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how to love, he was a bigot who hated blacks, white
protestants, yellow people, </div>
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Packies and all those women who knew how to love. the nearest thing he had to a </div>
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mother was a mill worker in a drab tunic kneeling down to
scrub her doorstep or in </div>
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church pews with three fingers missing waiting for some
haloed second coming. I </div>
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grew up without a role model my mothers good nature rubbed
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that's why I'm a poet,
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in a macho/feminine way if there is such a way. I think what im trying to say is </div>
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although he was an bastard I loved him and wouldn't have
been able to stand my </div>
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ground and survive such a negative world. He ran away from the traditional apron </div>
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strings of his so called mother and a bastard life and I ran
away aged sixteen away </div>
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from the traditional violence and my fathers apron strings,
he ran from what he didn't </div>
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know and I ran from his hatred, knowing love was better way
but his macho hard man </div>
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attitude wasn't letting me or anyone else in. If my brother had asked for fifty quid he </div>
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would have put his hand in his pocket and gave it to him but
if I asked for fifty pence </div>
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he would tell me to fuck off, he never even gave me pocket
money. I done the </div>
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shopping for my mum and stole from shops to keep the money
until I got a part time </div>
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milk round or butchers message boy while at school. Suppose I can laugh about now </div>
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has dead but I
remember times being humiliated in front of friends, and being </div>
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huddled in corner trying to sleep in empty houses with ice
on the windows. I ran </div>
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away from home four or five times until I was old enough and
I couldn't take no more </div>
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and beat him in 1977 and walked out the door and caught a
bus to the ferry port and </div>
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the over night train to London. I can still feel the emptiness of sitting on that bus </div>
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waiting for my father to come down and take me home, I loved
my parents and didn't </div>
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want to go but life at home you could cut the atmosphere
with a knife when we were </div>
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in the same room we hated each other. I had told my mother that I had to get out </div>
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because it was affecting my families life, and my mother
agreed, she knew that from </div>
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the day I was born I had to swallow his boot, that day I
went to London was the best </div>
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and the worst day of my life. I would have died for my family now I don't even talk </div>
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to them due to the stubbornness my father instilled in me.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: large;">THIS IS NOT A UTOPIAN DREAM</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">'It could be realised tomorrow if men would</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">learn to pursue their own happiness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">rather than the misery of others'</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /> Bertrand Russell<br /><br />The weeds sway in my garden<br />as tall as me, giving me<br />hope and truth that life<br />is not a bed of rose's<br />not here anyway.<br /><br />I go through another grey day<br />of scepticism, churning it<br />into paradise.<br /><br />This is my garden of hope<br />in the rain beyond<br />the blue door.<br /><br />The roof-tops and the trees sparkle<br />in the rain-drops of light.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Bauhaus 93"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE TO GET</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">'poetry is like sunshine it's free'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Adrian Fox</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: white;">Humanity what have I given you<br />what have you given me? I've been<br />through your greens and browns,<br />the lush meadows of grief. I've<br />been south to yellow sun and red<br />in fire season. I've been through<br />the west and east that turned<br />the east to west, I've been through<br />poetic points. I give you truth,<br />you give me beauty, you have my word.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">NINE LIVES </span></div>
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'yet why not say what happened'</div>
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Robert Lowell</div>
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A grey haired man sat in a wheel-</div>
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chair, filled his pipe and pondered.</div>
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A little boy running by a boat-port, </div>
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slipped and fell head over hells into the water. </div>
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He struggled for a time and tried to grapple the sky </div>
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until he fell through its depth. It was beautiful in there, </div>
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the seaweed and his hair moved in motion, slow motion. </div>
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Someone dived in and saved him and he woke </div>
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with a crowd around him.</div>
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2.</div>
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The bullets danced around his feet, </div>
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he stood there frozen with fear and pissed himself. </div>
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A big red hand came through the hedgerow </div>
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and grabbed him by the scruff, hauled him </div>
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and threw him on the lawn.
The piss once warm </div>
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was now cold in the dark reality. The big hands </div>
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grabbed him and threw him over fences and into his
porch. </div>
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The door ajar red off the latch,</div>
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he turned to see the man shot on the road.</div>
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He was his sisters boyfriend.</div>
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3.</div>
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At half-time the group of young boys played </div>
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and dreamed in the goal mouth of a Gaelic pitch, </div>
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the tree trunk-support that stopped the ball</div>
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began to fall and like a tom and jerry cartoon </div>
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he ran halfway down the pitch and woke up in a hospital </div>
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not knowing his parents names or his.</div>
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4.</div>
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He balanced on the tip of a tree reaching for a conker-err,</div>
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he fell through the tree breaking branches as thick as
trees. </div>
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He lay at the foot of the tree with blood coming from his
nose and ears, </div>
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his friends thought he was dead. so did he?</div>
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They came home from a nightclub, </div>
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his friend Bray his brother and girlfriend rose.</div>
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Someone put on pretty vacant by the sex pistols, </div>
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there was a knock on the door and his friend answered it </div>
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and returned pale and frightened. A big man asked me </div>
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to turn down the music, he had something heavy in his back
pocket.</div>
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The door was kicked in and we ran in all directions, </div>
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He dived under the bed his friend and his brother hid in the
cupboard, </div>
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his girlfriend ran into the kitchen. He lay there and heard the gun-mans </div>
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footstep his heart beat and his breathing, he put the gun to
his girlfriends head and said tell your friends to stop fucking around.</div>
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They were playing pool for money in an orange-mans bar, </div>
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He was green and naive.
He potted the black and went to the jacks, </div>
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stood there at the row of urinals heard the hammer being
cocked </div>
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and put to his head.
Looked down and thought he was gone, </div>
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just then the bar man came in and said put that fucking
thing away, he's ok.</div>
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They walked home from a nightclub in a town in northern
Ireland town, a yellow and brown Capri pulled up along the kerb. The young man seen the glint of an axe
being lifted, he pushed his girlfriend to run ahead and he ran the other way turning to see man the
chasing the girl, he ran up behind the
guy kicked him on the back for him to chase him but there was no where to run
so he ran down a lane and hid in a dark corner of a drive way. he scraped the
axe along the wall coming down his heart beat and his breath beat with the on
the edge of your seat horror, I'm coming to get ya and I'm going to kill ya! just when he was six feet away behind a
parked car someone that heard what was going on switched the light on and light
him up like a stage light. he ran
around the car, motioned over the bonnet and back to his girlfriend threw her over
a fence and ditch and hid before the axe murderer came up the drive, he looked
up and down the road and got back into his car. all the way home they hid in fields and saw the nutter in his car
five times.</div>
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Holidaying by the sea with his family on the north head of
Kerry,<br />
he counted the waves and tried to predict them and reach a stone island
by the rock pools.<br />
The wave took from
the rock into a whirlpool of ocean and he went down and down and down.</div>
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Just when he gave up the idea of ever surviving the sea
formed mermaid hands<br />
that lifted him like a barnacle clinging to the rugged
coastline.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bauhaus 93'; font-size: large;">9.</span></div>
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Three seconds after the life
support machine was switched off Peter woke and sat bolt </div>
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upright in the bed like some
demon from a horror movie, eyes wide and intense as if </div>
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he had seen a ghost, his brain
erased of all memory of 45 years, without any form like </div>
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a new born child in an adults
body. He opened his eyes but couldn't
find any point in </div>
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reality, he thought he was still
going through the stroke and those tunnels of darkness, </div>
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where am I he said in his head
but no words came out but the girl in yellow seen his </div>
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confused demented look and
answered ward 3, as if she knew the question he was </div>
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thinking, can I get you anything,
she said and he raised his hand to his mouth as if </div>
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holding a drink and she took the
jug of water and disposable cup from the vacant bed </div>
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next to him, putting it on his
table she continued brushing under the bed.</div>
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In his head he trusted nothing
and none he didn't know where he was, the nurses came </div>
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around the bed but he thought
they were out to kill him, he was hallucinating on the </div>
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drugs that were keeping him
alive. He held the bed rail and broke
into a cold sweat,</div>
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his bed was pushed from the ward
where the man with the chainsaw was cutting up </div>
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bodies behind him and chucking
the body parts into the bin, he was hallucinating life </div>
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and death he couldn't tell the
difference between fantasy and reality.
As his bed was </div>
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pushed on the lift going down to
have his throat cut for a tracheotomy, he caught his </div>
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reflection in the mirrored sheen of the stainless steel and started
screaming but no </div>
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noise was coming, he twisted the
blankets around his hands and broke into a sweat </div>
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and hoped that the nurses were
not out to kill him. A girl put a mask
on his face and </div>
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he drifted back into the darkness
then awoke and the girl was telling him his body had </div>
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rejected the tracheotomy and the
incision on his neck would heal in days .
He looked </div>
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around for a fixed object that he
could place in some sort of reality and decided on the </div>
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exit sign at least if I see this
ill know im not dreaming. You've taken
a stroke said the </div>
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doctor in the white coat, we will
explain more when you've had a good rest, the last </div>
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thing he wanted was sleep but he
was beat he felt like his body had been put through a </div>
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blender his brain felt like a
smoothie. </div>
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He fell into a dream state at
least he couldn't see any exit sign, all these </div>
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demon doctors stood around the
bed asking him questions all talking at once, all </div>
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their questions like can you
walk, talk, speak, move your limbs, one blink for yes, two </div>
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for no, he felt like he was
in a Steven King short story, when all
the doctors in his </div>
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hallucination reached over the
bed to inject him he woke. </div>
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He tipped over the stainless steel
table to make a noise and raise attention, as he </div>
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thought the nurses were going to
kill him, he saw the exit sign and realised that he had </div>
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Before my stroke as </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">a published poet I always felt that my soul had to be in love with life to write poetry, I’m still in love with life and have the same passion for life but I’m coming through the back door my pomes are fuelled with negativity but they are still searching for an alliance. They are formed by the moments of living despair, as you know I was always dark but now my poems are almost black with a tiny glimmer of light, I’m afraid that’s all I’ve got for you and even for me, I’m disappointed at times but I’m digging in the dirt, I’m taking the un-academic route living in the moment of un-truth, it feels as if I’m writing these pomes from this pool of negativity but sometimes the images are so dark I feel as if I’m depressing people so I know how you feel I depress myself but I don’t mean to. It seems I have to be honest with myself and delve into the dark and survive this hell-hole. I don’t mean to back away into shadow but I’m lucky to even be alive so I’m very thankful for your understanding and support, I couldn’t have done this without you, my friends thank you. I have to be totally honest with myself here, I survived a massive stroke like a bolt of lightning that would have killed a horse.<br />We will never know the reason why we’re here and I don’t want to know its magic but I have to live with the fact that I’ll never walk never talk properly and am paralysed down my right side but I have no regrets, I lived large and diced with life I know I should have died ten times over but I would do it all the same tomorrow so in the words of a great French lady who lived large, no regrets I had a wonderful time and now I must pay, this is the luck of the draw, these are the cards I’ve been dealt. I feel I only survived this bolt of blue because the love of my friends and family, because our love for each other was and is honest and true. I seen the darkness and craved for that tiny glimmer of light, I felt like I was on a train travelling on a metro system of grief going under tunnels of darkness then suddenly the bolt of blues power source switched off for how long I do not know but just as I was entering death and my life force was being erased like a star dying being drained of life the bolt of blue came back on and left me here. There is no sense of time in the galaxy of death so my dot in the negative space of the uni-verse leaving me in a dimly lit world of shadows that I create my inner light from and from this inner light I am catching moments of magic that help me over this hurdle of disability and suicide that knocks my door each day.<br />I want to find that otherworldly place that my poems had before the stroke, they will always have that confessional leaning because even before my stroke I was in love with reality. It’s very hard to break free of this disability, my home is like a hospital ward, every room has hand rails wheelchairs piss-pots and the aids of disability, this is my world.<br />Writing is my only escape and as most of you know I was a very independent person, I left home when I was sixteen and went to London and Dublin so I’ve always had that feeling of standing on my<br />Own two feet but my life now is the opposite, knowing that you can’t live without carers coming in to help you get up in the morning and go to bed at night so I’m sorry if the world I portray is dark and deep and hard to handle but its ten times darker for me and even I can’t stomach it at times but it is the world I must accept. It’s the bitterest pill I have had to swallow, the only way I can explain it is having a way forward but your stopped at a disability checkpoint and you realise there is no direction to take so all you can do is go round and round the roundabout and hope that you come of one day. Some of my pomes are leaning to that otherworld, at least becoming a bridge to that place of poetry, my dark self will always be there to help me accept this and I know it’s depressing at times but please bear with me and I always believe in self-censorship so it’s up to you not to read, this is the only way for me to get off this damn roundabout. One day I will reach that higher plain but I have to keep pushing my brain to form that other form, </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">thanx.</span></span></span></span><br />
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RAINER MARIA RILKE</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">DEPTH CHARGE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">The depth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">of my poems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">were 6x6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">a good memo-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">rial or a red-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">red rose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">As you see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">are getting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">shorter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">Life in this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">wheel-chair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">is 2x2 but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">less is more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">LIMBO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">Written in 1817
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";"> translated in 2013 by Adrian Fox<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">It is a strange
place this limbo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">where time and
space aren't mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">Seated in this
wheelchair with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">night-mare sense
in toil of half-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">being, elastic
space and time in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">outstretched
hands in barren<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">shifting sands
of time unmarked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">as moonlight on
the dial of day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">The old man sits
in human time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">with scant white
hair and fear-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">ful steady look
that stops earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">to watch his sky
moved by moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">and seen by
sun. His whole face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">is full of
silent sight, his look <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">looks back
reflecting light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">No shapely kiss
on sweet sight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">limbo walled a
spirit cell swirls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">a ghostly swirl
of shadow, horrors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">fright of dull
purgatory curse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">a heaven/hell of
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">THE WAVES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">The waves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">swim eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">to shadow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In years of tears</div>
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Moving-stagnant.</div>
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I hear the traffic</div>
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flowing like </div>
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Life is doing all</div>
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the elemental fun-</div>
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A UNIVERSAL THIRST</div>
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Tiny drop-</div>
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lets of colour</div>
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swirl my coffee cup</div>
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like oil on water</div>
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forming constellations</div>
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shapes and forms.</div>
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the lights </div>
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strumming mud </div>
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The bin-men came and emptied</div>
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god in a buy one get one free world.</div>
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The glistening sun on water</div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The other country is:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">A silhouetted hill by a lake in a night sky,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">your dreams.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I woke up sleeping on a steering wheel,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">VW imprinted on my forehead.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I drove north and detoured left, always left,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">around a lake and started back where</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I began in dreams.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The star in the western sky flickered</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">above my manger. Reading Keats,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">It seems as if Keats saw 9/11</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">in the first three lines of his poem.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">As if nothing has changed</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">in the poetic span of time.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">To pain and joy.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The sky was like a Turner painting:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">A dusky pink hue, hanging melancholy.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And listen to the Lambchop CD,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">This music still drifts me in and out</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Of reality. Driving down the motor-</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Way behind a horse box as if</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Through the Bann and the Blackwater.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Below a bridge where children wave</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Across the Sperrins, past the raised ruins</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">On the North West Passage, through the Fairy</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Old poems, Dostoyevsky, Kavanagh, Kerouac,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">This was my past before the stroke,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">the one that was like a dream.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Like an old man rediscovering</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Or a child with a time-travelling toy.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">With a box folder of poems written by me</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Written by someone else.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><i><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">You dabble in verse and it becomes your life</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span></i><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I dreamed I dropped a cigarette<br />
And there was nothing I could do,<br />
Only lay there paralysed and watch<br />
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My right side is lifeless listless dead.<br />
I lay and watched the carpet burn like<br />
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The things in front of me slowly dis-<br />
Appear like the light was taken from<br />
My eyes, like Keats watching his own death.<br />
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Two hundred years in front of me<br />
And I just watch it burn, I had to find<br />
A way in for our words to burn, I live<br />
Out here in yesterday but its today I fear.<br />
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His old right hand lay nerveless listless dead<br />
Shadows of the magic hand of chance.<br />
Why should I open my melancholy eyes?<br />
Blazing Hyperion in his orbed fire, darkened place.<br />
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Dreams of death and darkness death and darkness<br />
Monstrous forms, effigies of pain. There are<br />
A thousand signs of purer life, receive the truth<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of my dreams, caress your stem</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like freckles</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on your back. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">silk </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on
my lips.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drop-</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of summer</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rain</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fall from</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The petals.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I place you in a glass on my window-</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">sill. The young thorn pricks my finger: inserts</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Beneath the skin, reminding me how to hold</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">you honestly, tenderly. I know your
vibrant</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">colour won</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t last but beside it on the stem</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">is another bud to bloom.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by anyone but her’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Drowning in shadow, falling from light</div>
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Resting on darkness swinging on dark-</div>
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Ness beyond. You are
there in the depth</div>
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That fold over light until it slowly folds away.</div>
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A poem inside a poem</div>
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revealed it-self to me</div>
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showing a slant of ages</div>
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like an image within</div>
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Coming out of dark</div>
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a bi focal trick in the eye</div>
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of concentration to go</div>
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deeper and deeper into</div>
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the poem, grey matter.</div>
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Grey Matter</h1>
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has exhausted the theme of light and dark <span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but the shadows still fornicate.<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ve used the bed-rail, the wheelchair<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to keep me from drowning in dark.<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My piss-pot is angled like a shooting star<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Blazing my trail of hope.<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My positivity comes from the well<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Of treasure, the source that we call god.<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Of human spirit is a vessel of magic<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That keeps us whole and I always<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Make love with my light in the dark.</div>
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A COLD SON OF A BITCH</div>
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‘yet why not say what happened’</div>
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John looked from the kitchen window, the sink he stood by
was like the interior of a </div>
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well worn tea pot or the inside of his lungs sucking on yet
another cigarette.</div>
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The street light threw a subtle pastel glow on the still
housing estate, the red rusted </div>
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Volkswagen beetle stood like a monument to his life. He told himself, ‘ill have to get </div>
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stuck in and fix that car tomorrow’. He dropped a sleeping pill and rinsed it
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with a cold swig of tea and ‘ill have to clean this place’
he told himself </div>
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climbing the stairs.
He dreamed the usual sixty year old dream of young ladies </div>
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running naked through summer meadows. When he woke it was those abstract </div>
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images of memory that disturbed him and lingered like a
blunt saw through his aching </div>
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heart. It’s a
suffering fucking hell he told himself throwing cold water over his face </div>
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as if extinguishing the image in the mirror and the reality
of his bald head and pointed </div>
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features. The
stench of his loss lingered with every step he took down those steps</div>
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where once walked the wife and mother of his dreams. He could almost see her </div>
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walking down those stairs to meet the day with that irish
strength that pushed the sore </div>
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reality to the ground.
Im a loser he told himself a stupid bastard remembering being </div>
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an infant in a basket found on a front door, a single droplet of salted tear fell from </div>
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his hard Belfast exterior he brushed the tear aside like the murdering bullet
from an</div>
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armalite rifle. As
he ejected the stale teabags from the teapot he thought I have to go </div>
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doctors today and get that dla form filled in and get a
mobility allowance and have a </div>
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new car instead of that almost unrepairable rusted old
banger. He remembered how</div>
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the car looked in the nights subtle pastel glow, and said god you’re a bastard you and </div>
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your cold light of morning.</div>
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He sat in the doctors waiting room trying to remember good
times like his first born </div>
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or his wedding day but this annoying ugly kid kept shoving
leaflets in his face about </div>
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cancer of the bollox and depression. Just as he was about to smack the kid up the
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head he heard the broken english voice of the Pakistani
doctor call his name on the </div>
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tanoi like a conductor on a bus. As the doctor filled in a section of the dla form and </div>
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wrote some prescriptions for depression angina headaches and
the general feeling</div>
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that life is a sick load of balls. John was calling him a
black bastard in his mind </div>
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because he asked him exaggerate his findings on the form and
received instead </div>
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a lecture on the ethics of medicine. John was a bigot he didn’t know how to be </div>
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anything else, he hated blacks, pakis, Chinese as well as all those beautiful </div>
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women he could not have and especially that bitch that left
him after thirty one years </div>
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and six children. He
walked home through the maze of housing estates with his bag </div>
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of pills for every ill but the aching black hole in his
heart. Going past the derelict </div>
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houses full of grafitti he remembered the night the police
man called.</div>
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The shadow of black cap was cast off and fell through the
hall like the black cloud of </div>
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Depression, ‘your
daughters have been searching for you’ screeched, crashing with a </div>
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families laughter.
Those words rang through his mind like the word bastard the winds </div>
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of a harsh winter reminding him that life can be a cold son
of a bitch. He passed the </div>
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old decrepid bettle without an engine with out much hope of
ever pumping fluid </div>
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through its rotten pipes.
He opened the front door and half expected his wife to pass </div>
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him and his children playing music and busying around the
house, instead he was met </div>
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by the grey stench of loneliness. He stood by the sink steadying himself as those </div>
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words pounded through his head he washed down paracetamol
and an anti depressant.</div>
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His head pounded filled with anxiety he staggered into the
living room and threw </div>
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himself on the sofa putting his feet up on the coffee table
between the carbareatur .</div>
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And the innards of a TV he was trying to fix. He then stood up over the hearth and </div>
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placed a little blue tablet below his tongue and his heart
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able to catch his breath and relax. He climbed the stairs and threw himself on
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single bed this is my bed I must lie in it he told himself
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through the grey sky through the galaxy of stars burning in
the darkness of his sight </div>
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crumpled up into a little boy and cried himself to sleep. He woke with the </div>
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hope of a thirty year old man he debt, he bounded out of bed to tackle the
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day, ‘you cant beat
a good cry’, he told himself throwing water about his worn </div>
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features. He
brushed the hair from the nape of his neck to cover his bald patch and </div>
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brought it to a point on his forehead. He sang walking down the stairs a song he
sang </div>
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to his children when they cried, ‘you don’t have to be a baaa
aaby to cry’.</div>
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Opening a cupboard in the hall he dragged a filthy pair of
overalls from a pile of </div>
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clothes on the floor and stepped into them tucked his hair
into a tweed cap and lifted </div>
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the toolbox. The
morning was a little cool but the sun was coming up strong above</div>
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the grey housing estate, ‘ this is gonna be a good day’, he
thought sucking in the </div>
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almost fresh air.
Opening the passanger door of the car creaking like a great sigh</div>
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reaching in he delved between unsecured seating busted wings and an exhaust </div>
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hauling a jack from the debris. He took the cross shaped wheel brace and placed it on </div>
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one of the four nuts,
before taking hold he stooped and spat on his hands taking hold </div>
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he gripped the brace and turned with all his might and tried
to budge the nut as if it </div>
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was his last task on earth.
He cursed the car and gave it everything he had, all a sixty </div>
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year old worn heart could muster. A heart like a prune without syrup dried and left in </div>
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the searing desert of hurt to long,’ ya red bastard, ya
german fucker, ya useless heap </div>
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of shit, he mumbled
as the sweat broke on his brow. He
rested a while leaning </div>
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against his dream and took a cigarette from his top pocket
lit and sucked, he licked the </div>
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beads of sweat that fell across his lips he ran his tongue
across his lips once more they </div>
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were cold and grey he licked once more unsure and tasted
death.</div>
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On the morning of his funeral a letter drifted through the
letter box, one of his pal-</div>
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bearing four sons opened it and it read, we are pleased to
inform you that you have </div>
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been awarded full-rate motability.</div>
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<u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">FRIENDS</span></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">It's almost still out</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">the rain fell straight down</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">like a sheet of summer.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">I can never forget this
day </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">when i was so close to suicide.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">The blister packs of tablets</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">are on my floor, tied tightly.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt;">so close, we sit together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"';"><br />
WHAT PATRICK KAVANAGH SAW</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">(or a disused house in
county Louth)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Just up Duffy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s lane, over the fields towards Mucker,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kavanagh land, just a
mile from Hack-</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Balls-cross, through his
poplars,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Over his wooden gate and I
was lost</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">In an old abandoned
cottage.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was as if the people had
just walked out the door,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Like a film set of Patrick
Kavanagh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s Catholic Ireland.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lost in a world of sacred
hearts, blood from thorns</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And sepia-toned pictures of
Jesus. Bloody icons</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Littered every step I took.
It seems as if I had walked</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Into his poems in memory of
his mother and father.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I didn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t even know what a poem was then;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">All I knew was he had the
jack of a car</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And I had the branch of a
tree</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And we were out on
manoeuvres, playing.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I picked up an ebony and
ivory walking stick</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">That I was going to use as
a gun. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> said</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">My brother who was two
years older and wiser,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">That</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s the devils plaything.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> After all, he was a smart guy:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He could count to ten in
German and watch</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Match of the day at the
same time.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I threw it away as if the
plague was carved into it,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I went upstairs, looked out
the window</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And saw what Kavanagh saw.
I considered</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The grass growing, growing
cool about my ankles on a July day,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Running home through the
fields with my brother</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And a one-eyed,
three-legged dog.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"';">KNOWING THE UNKNOWN</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3>
I.M. Wallace
Stevens<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Deep in the depths of</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">irrationality, I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">m being rational:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">creating accidentally on</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">purpose poems like</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">a pre-meditated dawn,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">a disabled reality.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Literature is my desire</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">to live in this able-</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">bodied world.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ve been down the road</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">of suicide poetry, stood</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">on the ledge of my soul,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">looked down at the river</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">of poetry but couldn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t jump;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">so I reign here with a blind brow.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"';">THE OTHER HALF OF
EVERYTHING</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">woke in a tiny bed-sit, a
picture of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">son's face falling away
from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">eyes like a rainbow
drifting into the filthy walls. In a state of confusion<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">clambered into<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">clothes along the three
flights of stairs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">managed to manouvere<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">in massive strides,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">standing on the cat that
scared<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">him half to death<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">jolted him<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">closer to the front door.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> T</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he fear of what that hologram of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">son meant drifted through
his mind. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Queen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">L</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">iz</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">zy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">was quiet for a change: the
drunks and junkies were asleep or still locked up in the cells after the dawn
raid.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ran to the end of </span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">the street<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">where the kebab van parks
and sat on the wall, awaiting the girl to exit the phone booth. For fuck</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s sake, hurry up,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">told her silently, his
motives losing momentum</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">. He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">turned to the street and watched the creeds
of the world clamber along; among them the lost and the lonely released into
the community, the mad ones, the real people. An old lady with a white painted
face shoved a shopping trolley along the middle of the road, the rush hour
traffic swerving to miss her. Elvis in a sequined waistcoat posing for a shout
singing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Love Me Tender</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> across the street.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">A man in a long black coat
who never speaks to anyone, justs walks around with a scrunched up ball of
paper in his hand, wiping crayons taken from his breast pocket across the page.
He met him once in the Irish cafe and like a tourist he bought him a cup of tea
and asked could he have a look. Without a sound and half a smile, he handed him
his sketchpad while another appeared instantly from within his coat, and he
began drawing the scene outside the window.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Only he could see what the
man was drawing, whose back was to the view. He watched him draw half a man,
half a car and half a street, like the aftermath of a blitz. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The other ones, with crayons</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">, he said, and he took a ball of paper from
his pocket and rolled it across to him on the artificial marble, Formica-topped
table. As he unfolded the ball of paper, Monets, Lillies, Van Gogh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s trees and Vermeer's light filled his eyes.
He looked at him and saw in his eyes the other half of everything.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">rushed past the girl and
shoved the coins in the slot, his heart beating wildly like electronic codes
gathering in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">head; a dead tone.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">took the rejected coins and
shoved them home again and again, only to hear the same dead tones ringing like
a thumping headache; she must have changed the number,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">thought as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">returned to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">little room. Feeling caged
like an animal, trying so hard to concentrate on a book that it only brought
confusion. Unable to erase the sight of the picture of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">son appearing like that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">hologram and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">the worrying thoughts
attached to it. Your conscience is the prison of the mind; no matter how hard
you try you just can't out run it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Oh how he wished at that
moment that he was one of the dispossessed shuffling through life, oblivious of
any moral obligations.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">thought of his father
trying to run all his life from his bastard past, each one of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">five siblings<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">born in a different town
and staying no longer than a year in each; Belfast during the 60s and 70s being
the longest they stayed. There was probably one of the safest places in
the world for him: what past would want to find you in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Belfast<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">during the nightmare of the
troubles?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">When he gave up running
from his past a secret family exploded after thirty-one years of marriage. It
showered down on the family like emotional shrapnel, sending the family to the
four winds to lick their wounds,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">k</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">illing
father and devastating his mother with three strokes.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">always swore<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">would never be like him,
yet here<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">in a fucked up town in
England while everything was across the Irish Sea.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">discarded the book with a
vengeance into the corner of the room, took<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his only<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">coat from the only chair
and left the still madness to join the frantic streets.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was a warm summer's
evening, which didn't help much as the town's grim sights clashed with the
elements and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">void.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">called at the Asian shop
and purchased a bottle of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">o</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">verpriced wine (uncorked), without a care for
paying over the odds, anything to surpress<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">inner lament and to awaken<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">mind to simpler things.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">walked south of the town,
intent on not opening the wine until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">reached<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">destination. Beneath a
filthy old railway bridge<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">uncorked the wine and took
a deep swig, while in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">mind<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">told the roaring train
thundering overhead to fuck off.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">passed the roundabout where
the cars waited impatiently for their little piece of space, in a mad hurry to
get nowhere.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dusk fell on reaching<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">destination,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">space by the river</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">. He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">went there often to clear<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">head of the modern filth.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">sat by the river edge
smoking and chugging the wine; a slight warm breeze blew with the riverflow,
creating short sharp waves that gleamed with the red dye-injected sky. A treat
for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">eyes after the usual week
of air-conditioned factories, traffic jams, and everywhere the sight of
built-up grey areas filled with drunks, junkies and perverts, clambering the
streets in search of some temporary nirvana. That vexed feeling came fleeting
back at the sight of a riverboat pumping along unnaturally like filth on the
river; its cheap coloured lights flashing and cutting the reflection of the
line of trees from the far bank like a chainsaw. Idling towards the boat were a
train of swans: at their point was a beautiful white bird followed by four
black cygnets; guarding the rear was the majestic male. Pleasantly they blended
with the scenery, belonging.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The bright lights of the
boat</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s exterior and the lights within clashed,
creating silhouette shapes from within that pranced around, out of sync with
the nightclub thumping beats. Man</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s celebration driving like
a nightmare on the surpassing river. He recalled a night he was on board that
very boat, The Princess: a cruise, or so he thought. One of the girls in work
arranged it. He pictured the scene,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">r</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">elaxing on the starboard bow with a beer,
mellowing with the sights and the natural flow of nature passing by.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Most of the people<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">worked with were assholes.
Their form of chilling out after work was to be glued to the box in the corner
that pumped garbage into their minute recesses. He was excommunicated: he's an
odd-ball, they said, because he couldn't make a comment on the latest goings on
in the soap operas, or who scored the vital goal in the football, or give his
opinion on the lunatic on the news that murdered twenty-seven men and women and
ate their genitals</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> He liked poetry and
literature. T</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">hey
can keep their electrified dementia; he'll stay quietly insane.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">got a beer and left the
swarm of people within.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">sat on the deck ready for
the world's natural flow. The disco beat pumped decibels of thumping sounds
through the hull, echoing tremors through the river</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s capacity. It's no wonder it's a good river for fishing:
they want to be caught and have their necks smashed on the nearest rock.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">was so pissed off<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">wanted to catch a hook,
pull back on it, and be hauled to freedom.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">was starving, wanted to
hear classical music and let<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">mind wonder off to take it
in, then pour this experience out on paper.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">tried<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">best to relax and push
those stupid sounds away. Just when<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">thought<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">had it sorted, one of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">fellow workers broke<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">concentration to talk
shop. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">had riverboat sickness;
leaving the deck,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">returned to the madness and
sat with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">fellow used, as the
pretence of beer and whisky flowed. The booze took its toll and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">was no longer in control,
letting it flow with the filth of the boat on the river. As the train of swans
met the boat, two silhouette shapes stood on the deck, drinking from glasses
that flashed in the moonlight, pouring their substance from the glasses down on
the flock, their strict security broke in shock. He yelled at the shapes, you
think it's fucking funny, ya mindless wankers.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">In his rage he didn't
notice the swan swimming towards him, bolting onto the bank, honking and
hissing, wildly flapping its outstr</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">e</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">tched
wings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">stumbled back and ran for
cover behind the trees with the echoes of laughter from the boat.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">zigzagged through the line
of trees, and by the time<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">reached the river edge
again, after finishing the wine, it seemed the moon and stars were out for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">benefit only. Mellowing in
solitude, pondering<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">circumstance, watching the
shadows from the far shore rippling a picture for the album of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">mind, until something
caught<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">eye.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He t</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">urned
to see the swans silently coming along the river edge. He was about to get up
and run when he told himself stall, relax. His heart beat wildly and shook with
fear like the flowing river when the majestic bird broke the water with great
ease onto the bank and idled towards<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The massive bird came
strolling along the grass verge.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">F</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">or a
second he made eye contact before<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">lowered<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">head,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">closed his eyes and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">braced<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">self.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">felt the strength of its
breast as it pressed against<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Its cold beak brushed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">forehead and flowed to the
nape of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">neck with the affection of
a lover</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s touch, and a sensation
flowed through </span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">mind and body; a new sensation, something<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">had<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">only come close to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">experienc</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ing when seeing his children<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">be</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ing born. It cleared his mind<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">of every trivial thought<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ever had.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">He opened his eyes</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">, left the river and returned to the town,
got</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">gear together from the corner of the filthy
room and left. On the train</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">thought maybe I should
leave her alone, maybe they</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">re better off without me.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">On the boat crossing the
rough Irish Sea, political parties condemned murder in the TV lounge</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">As<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">sipped a pint of Guinness</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">it was winter in Northern
Ireland. All thing</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">were dying, the rain and the sea spray cut
with the coldness of steel; but<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">h</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">e</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ld in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">his hands a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">picture of his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">sons. R</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">eality<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">pulsing with a rhythm<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">never want</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"';">CONSCRIBED</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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In Memory of John
Hewitt<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I drove down the Bluestone road</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sat by my sisters grave, waiting</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">for grief to rise. Poetry comes</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">from down inside there:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">it</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s like trying to make sense</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">of nothing and make it flow</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">on the page.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sitting here beside a river</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">watching memory meander</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">and surface there in the current</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">to wave hello, goodbye.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">So rest there Stephanie, and sleep</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">memory awake.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am here at home in this</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">moment NOW. These</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">streets are my glens.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">These valleys are my cathedrals.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I conscribe this poem, having</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">breakfast of toast, tea and tablets</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">by an un-stained window;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">exiled by the space beyond</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">that blue door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">BLUR ON A WINDOW IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT</span></h2>
<h3>
For C.D. Wright</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">That image is drifting away already;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">An image coming out of an image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">A man standing against the body of a
man.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Will my sons ever see the sepia-tones
of my past?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Will they hold an ebony and ivory
walking stick,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Stumbling between this world and that</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">In an old abandoned cottage?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">I took my five-a-day today, tablets.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">My day begins in silence and poetry and
ends</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">In silence and poetry.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">An image within an image.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">I go to my hide, my will to power.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Turning another days muck into gold:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">A blurred memory from childhood
stumbling across a main road</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">With my eyes closed to see what it's
like in the dark.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">SOJOURN</span></h2>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">The drug dispenser lays open</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Holding open a book of poetry.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Carver books and Nietzsche books</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Are piled by philosophy and gloves.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">John Keats is there, open and soiled,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Held open by the knife and fork.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Beside the boxes of tablets, the
blister</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Packs that balance me each day.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">It</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">s like a chemist shop or an alchemist</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">s</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Shelf. I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">m flaking away here, leaving behind</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">A trail of poetry and dried skin. This
is why</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">I sojourn here, alone and palely
loitering,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022";">Just up the road from the balancing
lakes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">TYPEWRITER</span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It feels like 1971
or 1981 with-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Out a network
connection:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">An internment, a
Facebook with-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Out a face. It
seems like we</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">re</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Going back to
paper, pen, and grey grime.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The blank, black
screens of my lap-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Top and iPod are
like relics: old</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Broken screens on
a mound of</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Debris. It feels
like I</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">m hoking</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The bins of today
searching for</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Tomorrow.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In thirty years we
have only ad-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Vanced to a dump.
The laptop</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Begins to breathe,
reboot,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Then dies. My room
resembles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A second hand or
pawnshop</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In a flea market.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The black screens
just look at me</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Blankly, the cold
sets in and I go</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">And put the
heating on. At least</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The boiler
bypasses the cold.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">So much for the G-force,
my skin</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wrinkles the
ageing process, so much</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">For the giant leap
for mankind.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Looks like we</span><span lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">re going back to
the old type-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "\0022Bell MT\0022"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Writer with ebony
and ivory keys</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And a ribbon to write my
heart of darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">GRAVEYARD THISTLES</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I believe that the power of
art and the love of my children dragged me from the clutches of death six years
ago; that and my faith in humanity. Poetry has such a hold on my life that I
woke trying to fit my new mute self into a poem. I fell into a coma: not the
inner light of sentimentality, but the inner dark of reality. A duende/
negative capability, a way of dealing with the horrors of life. Only when we
dig right down into the darkness do we find a black light, like that of the
negative capability John Keats saw, a poet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s inner loneliness. A way of accepting my new life,
giving me a way of living with the wheelchair, the bed rail and the
monkey-pole, and now they are just items of life. Just as Keats when he
felt the negative capability; even in the grip of death he found that ounce
of wonder. At that moment, just as your lights are about to go, there</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s this mighty surge of wonder that makes you
write another word, it has driven me to wake everyday and write. That has been
my purpose for six years now. Whether it be good or bad, it doesn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t matter: that is beyond me. All i know is
that it flows like blood and gives me the strength to rise above the negativity
and find another word for another day.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Raymond Carver said that in fires, influences
are forces: circumstances, personalities, irresistible as the tide. Louis
McNiece once said poets don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t know what they are doing: if they did, it
wouldn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t be done. So this essay is taking its own course.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Poetry for me holds a deep sense of strength and
it has always been there, like a wreath pulling me through the darkest
days. It was there when my father and my sister died and I dealt with
their grief in the lines of a poem. It was there when I took my stroke and lay
on a hospital bed only able to move my eyes. Without poetry I wouldn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t have come through those
dark lonely days. I have read umpteen essays on the power of poetry,
always asking the question, does it change lives? Well, I can say that it has
changed mine. I grew up in a working class family and poetry was never
exercised.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The only books I read were of Michael Collins,
or the secret army, or Hollywood; poetry was a bad word. No one in my
family wrote poetry, so when I began my friends and family said I was mad and
my friends nearly all disappeared and thought I was out to steal their words. I
was always digging, looking for a source to spring and shower me in wonder. I
never liked the work place, having been a butcher boy, a metal polisher, a bin
man and an electronics engineer; just a few of the hundreds of jobs I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ve had. Before I left
school at fifteen with a basic education-poetry was like the word fuck you felt
it but didn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t say it in this moralistic sentimental world. I remember one
teacher, a Mr O</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Donohue: when he read poetry or stories they came alive, and I was
captured in the words. All my mates were messing at the back of the class and I
would usually be in the middle of them, but when he mouthed literature, It was
as if I fell into a trance. I just wanted to leave school and get out in the
world and earn my own money; so on my travels through the streets of London and
Dublin I always scribbled down things I saw, trying to piece them together for
a good lyric for a song, being as I was heavily influenced by the words from
the streets as David Bowie and Lou Reed were, using that language.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I remember a friend lending me </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Fires</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> by Raymond Carver: I read
the poem for Karl Walenda and it blew me away. I have since read and re-read
that book: his words held me to that tightrope, it tailed me all over Magdeburg
in Vienna and Prague. The poem</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s wind was holding me up, it was under my skin
south towards Puerto Rico and the torrid zone, and just beyond the Caribbean. I
had to shake myself free of its hold. From that day on, poetry captured
my dreams and coloured my day. I began to have confidence in the words I
wrote, toying with the idea of putting words together. I was unemployed at the
time and having a hard time with a young family, trying to be the breadwinner
and do my own thing. I got my family back to the magic shores of Ireland. I'm
English but even I knew that Ireland was better for my children than mad
capitalist England. I said to my wife that I wasn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t going to work: that I wanted to be a writer. I
may as well have said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or an astronaut; writers
were from another planet. Those words of Raymond Carver were like my own
language, it was as if he told me I could do this. I built a desk from an
old door in the box room and I created my haven, a little office where I could
lose myself in the written word. I told my wife it would take two years:
it took me six to get my first thing published, but in that time I was reading
W.B. Yates and Kavanagh, Dostoyevsky, Hubert Selby, Robert Lowell, Elisabeth
Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Patrick lane, Ted Hughes, Liam O</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Flaherty, Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Connor. I immersed myself
in words. For ten years I wrote and re-wrote and read and reread, piecing
together snippets of thought.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">One day I got a brochure on the Poet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s House in Port Muck, a
poetry retreat. I sent them three poems and I was accepted. It was magic:
two weeks of poetry and poets by the sea. I got stuck in and loved the people I
met. I workshopped my poems with Medbh McGuckian and Simon Armitage,
Jimmy and Janice Simmons and Martin Mooney, my heroes. It was like
everything was released in those two weeks, with the freedom to talk about
poetry; outside in the real world, it was like talking about something taboo.
There was only certain people who didn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t think you were nuts. Before I left that magic
place, Jimmy and Janice Simmons invited me to apply for a Masters Degree. I
didn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t even have an GCSE or an O
Level, but Jimmy said you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ve got three weeks: write me a piece on your
thoughts of poetry, and send me ten poems and I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ll send them to Lancaster university. I drove
home from Port Muck and every turn of the wheel was the thought of me doing a
Masters. Every twist and turn was speaking of reality and the surreal
demons inside me, back and forward, mirror, signal, manoeuvre. Eventually
I sat down after talking to my wife and said that I had to take this
opportunity. I wrote the essay and tidied up ten poems and sent them off
thinking that I would not get a reply and drifted back into reality.
Jimmy sent the work to Lancaster: they were passed around a group of outside
examiners and on the merits of my work I was awarded a scholarship to do a
Masters. I knew then that the puzzle was being pieced together. The Poet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s House was moving from
Port Muck to Donegal, so this was a new beginning for them and a new beginning
for me. I had this jumbled page of writing called </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">‘</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Light on the Stones</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">, about my father</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s death, a death that
impacted my life so much, and since then through that poem I have always
believed that there is something beautiful in death. It was as if my father
spoke to me, and my new father of poetry and literature showed me a way of
dealing with the hardships of life. If I said this outside of poetry, you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">d think he</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">s away with the fairies,
but I believe that we should be taught more positively about death because
there is something magic about it. Jimmy Simmons sat me down at the
computer and arranged my words into a poem; ever since that day I have edited
poems that way that Jimmy taught me. Jimmy died a few years later but I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ll never forget him, and
every time I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">m working on a poem his image enters my mind. I got the
Masters, not that it means very much: I don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">t hold much sway for a piece of paper on the
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">But since then, I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">ve worked teaching creative writing to children
and adult groups all over the country, and have met some magic people. I have
four collections of poetry, and have been published by Poetry Ireland, The
Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight Magazine, The Black Mountain Review, Lapwing, and
Lagan Press.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"';">THE LIGHT ON THE STONES</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I retrace your final journey now in a blue car,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Not black, alone on the motorway.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Passing the Maze prison, the stench of my engine</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Overheating is like gunpowder, spent shells,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lingering, your dream of Irish freedom.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I climbed the mountain graveyard</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Above the violent, divided city,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Above the peace line that stood between us</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the living room. It was a maze</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Of kept graves, lawns, wreaths, flowers,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Names on glistening headstones.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your plot, all weeds</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And wild grass, cries out for order.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The fallen wooden cross bears no name;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">But you are there. Like a sculptor</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">With clay I reach inwards, my hands</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">As delicate as salmon wings riding</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The white water, struggling</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">The strong currents of grief.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I brush the soiled tears from your eyes</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And you awake in me, swimming</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">And glistening in mine. My hands</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Shape the clay moulding our wounded past,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '⊾ll MT"'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Emerging in the light on the stones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LYRA</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">'I have two luxuries to brood
over,</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">your loveliness and the hour
of my death'.</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Keats to
Fanny Brawne July 25, 1819<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">John
Keats holds the seat of poetry</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">the
instrument plucked by the breeze</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">of
Orpheus, riding high on the horse</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">of
poetry, a stable-boy on Equules colt</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">star
in the major magnitude of Lyra.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Like a knight shielding his
mother's honour</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">the
room fell into quietness, remembering</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">he
wiped her fevered brow, the memories</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">of
melancholy flooded, writing with</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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living hand, this moment.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Luxuries
of death and love keep me within</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">higher
paradigms of expanded darkness, writ</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the rippled land, his soul was soaked</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">in the
shipwreck futures salty brine among</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">the
mean streets beneath the bells of bow.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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casual graves of night soils along the dark</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Thames, an uneasy light headedness</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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over gathering darkness swallows sky.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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THE ORPHIC SONNETS/PRAYERS</span></b></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>‘not till here and beyond</div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>voices are rendered lasting</div>
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These poems go out to my ethereal
family</div>
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the pure strong ones, the ones who
keep me</div>
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pure and strong. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Learning to say</div>
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what I cannot say.</div>
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Cars drive over my dreams things
enter me</div>
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Deeply and find a shallow form,
always</div>
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Going back to the beginning back to</div>
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The word.</div>
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I see death and destruction, oh
mother</div>
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Of the word, earth. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I know love</div>
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Is the only answer but how</div>
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Can I grasp love
when </div>
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The system that gives</div>
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Life does not allow</div>
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Me love.</div>
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to saturns blessed queen, Reah</div>
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hear my horrid howlings. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mother</div>
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of my uni-verse, liberating muse.</div>
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My words are flowing from images</div>
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But what are they doing?</div>
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I found my purpose, the word now</div>
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I must find the form. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh thunderous</div>
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Jove please echo my words around</div>
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your lofty heights and atherial
blaze. </div>
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Send them through your divine
power,</div>
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through shrouds of dark fluid
cloud.</div>
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O Jove hurl them with your strong
arm</div>
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Around the tops of mountains.</div>
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I call on you</div>
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The mighty</div>
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Splendid light.</div>
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Aerial, dreadful</div>
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Sounding flaming</div>
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Light.</div>
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All parent great</div>
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And strong, parents</div>
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Of prolific rains</div>
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Wash me in watery</div>
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Frames and dry me</div>
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In airs wide bosom</div>
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Through stormy</div>
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Sounding gales.</div>
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to reveal my crown of wishes</div>
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royal health and gentle peace</div>
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to be my constant guide.</div>
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I call on mother earth</div>
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that fruitful showers</div>
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fall. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I call on you</div>
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the sea with pools</div>
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of bright light.</div>
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Empress of deep gentle gales</div>
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Sweep my rocky shores</div>
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Veiled in cold transparency</div>
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and fountains pure</div>
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waft me over</div>
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stormy shores.</div>
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5.</div>
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to Nereus;</div>
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the demon of the deep</div>
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the dark foundations of my sleep.</div>
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the earths bounty, the earths un-</div>
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shake. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>To the daughters of the deep</div>
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wild leaping in liquid sea</div>
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the beauty of sacrafice delight</div>
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to almost drown</div>
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in pools of light</div>
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to live each day</div>
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in ponds of sight</div>
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send words of right</div>
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on mystic rites.</div>
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6.</div>
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to you who holds the key</div>
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of chambers weep. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Let me</div>
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light my way to the end.</div>
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The source of fertile earth</div>
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The all destroying force.</div>
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Fruits of dark</div>
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Endless root</div>
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Give to take my souls de-</div>
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Light, accept the darkness</div>
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Of my sight. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Draw near</div>
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To my prayer.</div>
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oh ruler of mankind</div>
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listen, listen to my words</div>
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the deep is dark.</div>
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My weapon is</div>
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my only tongue.</div>
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Open up take me in</div>
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Infernal queen.</div>
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Let me lick the realms</div>
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And whisper words</div>
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Of love. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Some things</div>
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Are best</div>
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Unsaid.</div>
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8.</div>
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There are half truths buried in
life</div>
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Lets be sure to be unsure.</div>
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The eyes sees what</div>
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The mouth cannot say,</div>
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Everybody has a truth-their truth.</div>
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I seen it but the stroke blurred</div>
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My vision, how can I</div>
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Say what I see.</div>
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Did I see that man pass</div>
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That window and leave</div>
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His mark on you?</div>
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Rilke you gave me this title</div>
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And you gave me your truth</div>
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In the meaningful word</div>
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In-clan-nation.</div>
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I hear</div>
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The pure</div>
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Stuff</div>
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Trickle</div>
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Down</div>
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A drain.</div>
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Meandering</div>
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Memory</div>
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Tumbling in-</div>
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To a tumbler</div>
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After</div>
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A down</div>
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Pour.</div>
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THISTLE-</h1>
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The weed thistle-</div>
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Down reaches</div>
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beyond me and my</div>
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height before this.</div>
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It overlooks the fence</div>
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Looking up and out</div>
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At life looking back at me.</div>
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I can only grasp</div>
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The limits of life</div>
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In its milk thistle.</div>
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The leaves dance</div>
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A poetic rhythm</div>
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Rising and falling</div>
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In the rain.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10.0pt;">THE FORM OF THESE WORDS ARE CREATED BY THE
MOMENT.<br />
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Why do we want to create a magic formula for yesterday, form is the moment<br />
and the word the moment creates the form. Form is not a structured way of
saying something you've written, a for<span class="textexposedshow">mula a haiku
or a sonnet. Do you want to do what was done yesterday and go the academic
route to refine it or do you want to do what's you?</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Jack Kerouac one of the great beat writers told us
to 'write as if were the first person</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">on earth' and Wallace Stevens told us that 'the
theory of poetry is the theory of life'</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">THE FORM OF THESE WORDS IS CREATED BY THE MOMENT.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Beat poetry was new and experimental as were the
words of Walt Whitman and when we heard it first we went wow and since then
have tried to fit our words into the pasts parameters but it was the moment of
change that created those magic words, so we've got to let the moment create
the form. beat poetry is named so because it captures the essence of beat
poetry it has life a rhythm a pulse. ok I know I fall down on the grammatical
front but isn't all new writing politically and grammatically in or un-correct.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">THE FORM OF THESE WORDS ARE CREATED BY THE MOMENT.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">form is a moment lost in time and we harness that
moment with words, form is not a way of saying something written on a page, we
know that we can never capture that moment but why not create a moment from
that moment not by reliving the formula</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">but by creating a new form from the magic of a form
its not its steps that creates its magic its the moment. words have a rhythm a
magic of their own and they find a rhyme within the moment (the form). we can
never reproduce the magic of a haiku</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">or a brilliant villanelle but it was the
combination of words that caught that moment.</span><br />
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<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Life is experimental, we are stepping into the
unknown (if we want) stepping into truth, our truth, let us create the
dimensions of our truth of our moment and as Joseph Attila said let the
'silence of our dreams take on a human form'.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">MY TRUTH</span></span></div>
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<i>REMEMBER HUMANITY</i></div>
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<i>FORGET THE REST</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BERTRAND RUSSELL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 72pt;">songs<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10.0pt;">UNITED IRISHMEN<br />
<br />
A bit of a song, a bit of poem<br />
from a bit of history.<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">The moment is damp dull</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">and a Northern Ireland grey.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">The days have been like this</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">since I can remember but</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I cant remember days of hay-</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">stacks and jumping rooftops.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I almost remember those days</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">crying childhood and jumping</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">for joy. a captured moment in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">mid-air like a petrol bomb before</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">it hits the ground and ignites with</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">joy, Henry joy.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">days like these, I feel in sync</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">get a link from his-story</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">and imagine days of peace be-</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">fore 1794. its as if my child-</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">hood was raped and pillaged.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I think I remember days before</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">nineteen sixty nine, living in</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">a mixed area just off the crumlin</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">road, shopping on Shan kill.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">those were the days my friend</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">what ever happened to those</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">days of Henry joy.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">they hung him up in Belfast</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">a native Irish English son, up</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">there on the gallows pole</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">they hung his undivided soul.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Irish heart English blood</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">he was made of, he's buried</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">up there in Belfast in</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">a soiled Irish home.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">salute the joy that joy gave</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">salute this time and place</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">called peace and the days</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">of Henry joy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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STROKE DOWN BLUES</div>
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Caught in this mumbled mom-</div>
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ent of dis-abled secterian blues</div>
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looking down at my wheelchair</div>
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and my frankenstein boots, then</div>
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up into grey skies and the sent-</div>
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time-mental route, mid-way is</div>
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my blister packs and my</div>
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overdosed life looking</div>
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from this moment with</div>
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no where to go</div>
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sitting here in limbo</div>
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with no where to go</div>
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sitting here in limbo in a state</div>
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that doesn't want to know</div>
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sitting here in limbo with</div>
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only words that flow in-</div>
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to this current.</div>
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Words of wonder, words of snow</div>
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words that drift onto this page</div>
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and find their own show </div>
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its own way down</div>
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sitting here in limbo</div>
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where time is moving slow</div>
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sitting in a moment that</div>
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doesnt want to know but</div>
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drip, drip, drip, down</div>
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sitting here in limbo</div>
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just sitting here in limbo. (fade)</div>
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A BOY NAMED SUE</div>
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Suicide you are my friend no more</div>
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you sit here at my breakfast table</div>
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trying to shove your wares down </div>
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my throat but im not taking no more</div>
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I'm not soft in the head no more, ok</div>
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I'm broke and disabled.
Get of my back</div>
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I don't fear you, you sick sad coward-</div>
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ly person. Suicide
you preyed on my</div>
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sadness, I just
laugh at your hardness</div>
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it's you that's soft in the head, your a sad</div>
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case with no form.
You only had one way</div>
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down. You cowered me
down into this hell</div>
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but this is my sadness my cell so please</div>
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get of my back, to think you almost fired</div>
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me in clay. you'll
have your sad sick way</div>
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in the right place at the right time.</div>
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In the meantime stay off my back.</div>
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you are just the life I lack</div>
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I carried you around like a heavy sack</div>
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now I spill you out on the floor</div>
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because you cant hurt me no more</div>
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your just a sad sick
shallow bore</div>
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I'm on my way back up.</div>
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A POME OR A SONG OF RIGHT AND WRONG</div>
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Is poetry the saviour of life?</div>
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I know we need something to pull</div>
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it from the swamp of
neglect.</div>
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whether that's an academic one</div>
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or a moment us one. </div>
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poetry is past and future us</div>
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like life is fast and furious.</div>
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it meets the sound and feel of this day</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and drags it into our sentimental soil.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
is poetry the saviour of life?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
tick the box or x it through</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but whatever you do make</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
gold out of this muck.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
poetry is the call of life?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
written there like a cave painting</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
on the markings of road, there is</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
one way to go and there is only</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
one way to know.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it don't matter if it right or wrong</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
good or evil light or dark in-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
love or hate, all that matters is</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that this is a song of hope.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we are all made of blood and conflict</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we are the atom that made the atom bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we are what is within us, we are both</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
right and wrong. we
are the first men</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
on the moon to call it a scam, we will</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
start a war tomorrow over today. we </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
are just fickle humans playing life.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
please let me be?
there I go again</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
talking to myself, let me be in-between in-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
between right and wrong, love and hate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
light and dark, good and evil.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we are made of blood and conflict</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we flow in the current war</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
life is lonely without a predator</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
we need life sucked from us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to feel to gush and rush to soar.</div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></b>
<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Who ever does not some-<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></b>
</div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">times give full consent, </span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and a joyous consent, </span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to the dreadfulness of life, <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">can never possess <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the utterable richness </span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">and
power of existence</span></i></b><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">."</span></span><br />
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RAINER MARIA RILKE<br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></u></span>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></u></span>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"> poetry is like sun-</span></u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<u><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">shine its free</span></u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">(my adopted kingdom)</span><span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">IN THE SHADE</span></span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The world doesn't look so grey </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">with these sunglasses on. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Poetry and my children</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">are my only hope. There are </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">no good and bad days in my world </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I've adjusted the colour of day.</span></span><br />
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Looking through fresh eyes</div>
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the seasons come and the sea-</div>
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sons go and winter is upon us.</div>
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there is no right and wrong</div>
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no love and hate, no light</div>
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and dark here, just both</div>
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and it looks good to me.</div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">REFLE</span><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">CTING DEATH</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The waves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">swim eyes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">to shadow-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">light.</span></div>
</div>
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">poetry is what poetry does </span></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: black;"><br /></u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: black;"><br /></u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: black;">FRIENDS</u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">Its almost still out</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the rain fell straight down</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like a sheet of summer.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i can never forget this day </span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when i was so close to suicide.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the blister packs of tablets</span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are on my floor, tied tightly.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so close, we sit together.</span></div>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></u></span>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"></span></u></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></u></span></div>
<span style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">CAPABLE</span></u></span><br />
<u><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"> negativity </span></u><br />
<u><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></u>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;"> ‘not till here and beyond</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;"> voices are rendered lasting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;"> and pure’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: large;">Rilke</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"> poetry is like sunshine its free</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i style="text-align: center;"> </i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i style="text-align: center;"> 'I am obliged to perform in complete darkness </i></div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="text-align: center;"><i>operations </i></span><i style="text-align: center;">of great delicacy </i></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<i style="text-align: center;">on myself'</i></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> John Berryman</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<br />
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A POME OR A SONG OF RIGHT AND WRONG</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Is poetry the saviour of life?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I know we need something to pull</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it from the swamp of
neglect.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
whether that's an academic one</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
or a moment us one. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
poetry is past and future us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
like life is fast and furious.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it meets the sound and feel of this day</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and drags it into our sentimental soil.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
is poetry the saviour of life?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
tick the box or x it through</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but whatever you do make</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
gold out of this muck.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
poetry is the call of life?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
written there like a cave painting</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
on the markings of road, there is</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
one way to go and there is only</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
one way to know.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it don't matter if it right or wrong</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
good or evil light or dark in-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
love or hate, all that matters is</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that this is a song of hope.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
we are all made of blood and conflict</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
we are the atom that made the atom bomb</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
we are what is within us, we are both</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
right and wrong. we
are the first men</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
on the moon to call it a scam, we will</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
start a war tomorrow over today. we </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
are just fickle humans playing life.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
please let me be?
there I go again</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
talking to myself, let me be in-between in-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
between right and wrong, love and hate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
light and dark, good and evil.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
we are made of blood and conflict</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
we flow in the current war</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
life is lonely without a predator</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
we need life sucked from us</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
to feel to gush and rush to soar.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">A POME OF LAST LINES</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<u>1. ARE THESE THE WORDS THAT
SET ME FREE?<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It feels like I'm deep in a syn-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
drome, lost in a deja-vu</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in/out of a virtual reality like</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
a non-mental case.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
a believing non believer locked-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in a vuja-day, a day that</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I remember but I cant re-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
member my way out.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
I cant be the only one on this</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
planet that's fucked-up in</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
an in/out world. if
this</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
is a virtual reality I'm back</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
where I belong, lost</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
in a rhythm before it becomes</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
a beat, the mid-flow of a metro-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Nome striking this moment</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
to be. my pomes are
like</div>
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an M.C.Escher creation they go</div>
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out to lead you in.</div>
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2. THEY GO OUT TO LEAD YOU IN</div>
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I've been through the black</div>
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paths, seen life as the crow</div>
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flies, there is black skin on</div>
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me. I never know
what I'm</div>
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doing, the words take over in</div>
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me like a shadow on concrete</div>
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a cracked slabbed pavement</div>
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I'll slab my way back to you.</div>
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3. I'LL SLAB MY WAY BACK TO YOU</div>
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through the entry, along the alley-</div>
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ways, in the sound of Gregorian- </div>
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chant, I'll reverberate here on this</div>
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held hymn among the dirt and debris.</div>
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A choir boy abused in a con-</div>
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fessional box writing through</div>
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a gauze, a veil through which</div>
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I see, kerb-stoned.</div>
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4. KERB-STONED</div>
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On this corner of life</div>
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I loiter waiting for me.</div>
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tri-coloured in green</div>
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white and gold, draped</div>
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in red white and blue</div>
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sitting on my fence</div>
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watching the parades</div>
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go by all black and blue.</div>
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BLUE</div>
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I've written many pomes of this title but</div>
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its just my way of life.
I've thrusted jet-</div>
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streams and swam streams, been bitten by</div>
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lamp-ray and vulva in me.
been suckered</div>
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into many a thing but these are the words</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">that have set me free.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">THE PURPLE PLASTIC BENDY SPOON</span></div>
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The sun slanted in and stole the day, children </div>
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cried into lollipops and parents moaned.</div>
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I saw a jet- stream shoot back through cloud</div>
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like a double helix in the sky, the backbone</div>
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of humanity, evolution flat lined then it began</div>
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to merge like a sky walkers sky-rope through D'n'A.</div>
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I see all this through the square window, through</div>
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the fence that fences me into this hell/cell, past</div>
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the multi shaded red bricks that play my emotion</div>
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each day like a path of bricks in a game of cluedo</div>
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red, blue, white green or yellow. just a colour</div>
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coded drug dispenser sitting in a wheelchair</div>
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in jogging bottoms and Frankenstein boots</div>
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sweltering in this heat.</div>
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all I can smell today is jealousy and the stench</div>
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of rotting flesh from the millions of pig, poultry</div>
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and livestock kill houses to keep us alive. like</div>
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Fredric Garcia lorca they have murdered my sky.</div>
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ive spent ten years behind these vertical blinds</div>
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in this hell/cell, there's no good Friday get out card</div>
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this is a true life sentence with no parole.</div>
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It's sad when you eat cereal with a children's purple</div>
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plastic bendy spoon because your paralysed</div>
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and the food goes everywhere but I wouldn't change </div>
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a thing. I had two
or three lives and I had a ball,</div>
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ok I'm the ball kicked of the wall and up and down</div>
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the road dribbling poetry and art between the posts.</div>
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I feel compelled to write this as if I haven't just been</div>
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a poet since I got a masters degree in 1997 but</div>
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I've been a poet writing pomes since the day </div>
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I fell from that tree or the day I almost drowned</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in that sea that was the day I lost innocence and
became me.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nJktBlKIHa9grlbNHdCW6RqtfbtYRDPcm1CYpkYVjBXGR5nK1m2WOSBKUH-d4uD8Ipu1aeo6CiexgSh4RAHqNaelFYn_R9_PJtHuKtgQSMrRxF7QUvW9dOh9kuXmrZEoF3iKAaTmMQQR/s1600/025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nJktBlKIHa9grlbNHdCW6RqtfbtYRDPcm1CYpkYVjBXGR5nK1m2WOSBKUH-d4uD8Ipu1aeo6CiexgSh4RAHqNaelFYn_R9_PJtHuKtgQSMrRxF7QUvW9dOh9kuXmrZEoF3iKAaTmMQQR/s200/025.JPG" height="127" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">HEART SHAPED VERMILION RED</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">I woke this morning, reached out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">and the snippets of dreams began</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">to fade sneaking through the curtain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">dancing out of the corner of my eye</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Re-tracing my flesh as if brushing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">away sleep, I found one of your hairs,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">teased it out like a golden thread</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">searching for the eye of the needle,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">stitched it to memory and felt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">your touch penetrate be-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">neath the skin.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">with the beginning of this poem</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">in mind, I stumbled for a pen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">threw back the covers to reveal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">heart shaped vermilion red, the dark</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">outline following the contours of flesh</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">with the precision of an artists brush-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">stroke as if I had known you inside out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Still moist in my mind, your kiss.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: black;"> MY BASTARD STATE</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Before decimal currency there was a social realism in the air, everybody was grounded into a moral of do your neighbour no harm and no harm will be done to you, when I first came to Northern Ireland in 1967 the people were so friendly and helpful it’s a pity that their humanity didn’t out-weigh their sectarianism.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">The new graph of life came and we lost our individualism. Pre 1971 everything was dealt on a local level but post 71’ sent shockwaves of confusion through both tribes who retreated into themselves creating even more hatred and tension, they created the divide in the communities through confusion. </span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">We were then being governed by this new order from London who knew nothing of </span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Northern Irish culture so every ruling they made put the peoples backs up and the people kicked back and the conflict went into a tit for tat paranoid hatred.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">After 71’ we were confused and didn’t know what tribe we fitted into and we fell into our group of clones or the closest group of unity that fitted our confused hatred, we became like a swarm of ants confused going in all different directions. The morning of internment was a great example of this: Everyone knew they were coming it was on the grapevine that they were coming to take you away ha-ha, but we didn’t know from what direction, we were like a pack of headless chickens running around without our individualism, no wonder Northern Ireland became such a dangerous place it was like a traditional gangland.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">I was ten in 1971, a confused little English boy living in a nationalist area, my day was one of survival, kicking back against this hard man macho culture until I became one of the tribe. I remember being kicked by a prod gang and the next day it was the taigs who beat me to sing the sash or recite the hail Mary, I didn’t know what they were talking about so they beat me even more. I was just as confused </span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">as they were, the whole Irish/English dimension was out there in the state of confusion.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">I was an English boy who was put out of his home in a mixed area between Shankill and the Crumlin road, Columbia street by an angry mob carrying the flags of my country. I was so confused by it all and knowing my father was a man who served in the British army who began to speak of hatred towards the British. I have to admit that I’m a peace loving person but for a time I went along his path as he was my macho role model. Lucky I always kept my mother’s naive wisdom </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">of never do no one any harm. I had a strange up bringing the son of a Belfast pessimistic father and a Dublin optimistic mother, add </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">this to the confusion and sectarian paranoia, I didn’t know where I belonged I didn’t know whether I was coming or going I was up and down like a yoyo, I didnt know where my aligance lay even the people who knew what foot to kick with were confused so you can imagine mine. Not until I began to form my own opinions backed by my mothers one golden rule in life of don’t do no one no harm </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">was I able to stand up and be an individual. I was the little boy sitting on the fence watching both tribes and I must say there were times when I swayed by the hatred and confusion, lucky I didn’t turn into a hate filled rebel fighting for a cause that was brought on by confusion, sitting here in hindsight and peace time I can see the state of confusion. It seemed the future was heading towards art and realism heading in the direction of fair play and justice then the powers that be done a u turn into a </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">crusade mode of war greed and I don’t give a fuck what the people think mode. As if we suddenly changed course into a roman gladiator way and became members of a cloned barbaric state, the characters of our society became outcasts and anti-individualists. Not that it mattered much to me I was trying to survive a bastard British army father who was in the I.R.A., the whole world seemed in a </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">paranoid dog eat dog state. I done what I had to to keep my one golden rule intact and my way of not becoming one of the tribe full of hate and greed. The world was in an Orwellian nightmare and I wasn’t gonna be part of that big brother hatred so I ran into myself into realism and truth. People think I am depressing and dark but I’m not the world we live lacks truth and honesty and characters’ </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">of true conviction, I’m just truthful and human and I’m just doing what comes natural to me, churning my truth into a tool of survival. Looking back now I can see that I was a very confused young man, deeply affected by my fathers paranoid state of being a bastard child, I know now that I must take his </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">bastard child with me and find some truth for him to survive and nurture in my children so I don’t really care about the past, this is my beginning I know this is the future of my humanity. These are only my opinions of my state and how I seen things. I think Northern Ireland and its sense of humanity </span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">and friendliness really has something going for it ,it has moulded me and my sons into worthwhile individuals so even through this paranoid confusion I have found a true bastard state.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">POLLINATING DARK</span></div>
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The cars go by my window</div>
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from there to there but Im In</div>
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the hive in-between.
The sun</div>
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shines poetry onto the page</div>
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and the shadow of cloud drift by.</div>
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Capturing emotion that's a </div>
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drive by written in me.</div>
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Time goes by and seasons pass</div>
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but life still shines in me, it finds </div>
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a way of producing honey</div>
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from the syllable bee, even if</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the nectar was disabled in me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">SPECIAL POWERS ACT</span></div>
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Looking out from</div>
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these barbs of note-</div>
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book, captured on</div>
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these grey lines.</div>
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Looking in here in</div>
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this prison cell, doing</div>
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time for something</div>
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that I didn't do.</div>
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Tunnelling my way</div>
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out in syllables,</div>
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its the only way in</div>
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through truth.</div>
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Have you ever had</div>
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that barbed-wire</div>
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feeling, that feeling</div>
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of nothing at all.</div>
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There is no such thing</div>
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as no-thing, there is al-</div>
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<i>taken on a human form'<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> Atilla Jozsef<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I've seen life from every</div>
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angel, I have jet-streamed</div>
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My children are my colour</div>
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rainbow of sight and I am</div>
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the great protractor</div>
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ner light.</div>
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I'm a walking, talking metaphor</div>
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searching this bomb-site, </div>
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that's my needle of rite and</div>
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this is my pen point of sight.</div>
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This is not formed into a simple</div>
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sonnet, its something that hasn't</div>
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been done before, its the light</div>
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to the memory of me and you.</div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">What is this cell of light and dark?</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Where paintings float upon walls</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And books are piled to keep</span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Your soul warm. Even the government</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Can’t name this cell
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<span class="textexposedshow">a place where man is between life</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">and death like a black in a black market colony.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">A place where life waits for it to fit</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Its mould, it sits there outside waiting</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">to join in the fun of morals dis-</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Ease and war, big brother isn’t watching be-</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Cause man isn’t watching him to be corrupt.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">This is a disabled hell in an able-bodied light</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Growing into tomorrow to be its silent sight.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">This garden prim can’t out-grow weeds</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">that only thinks it knows.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Utopian dreams are hippy trippy</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I think I’ll stay home, today</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">And create this masters peace.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">A true individual is so rare in this world in my view there has only ever been a few, the main man the man of true conviction has to be john Keats. There have been many that came close like Rainer Maria Rilke, Nietzsche, Lowell, Frost, Kavanagh, Dostoyevsky, I could go on all day but I’ll only mention one more of my hero’s Raymond Carver, his poem what the doctor said is one of the gr</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">eatest poems ever written, as brave and as true as any melancholic ode. Keats and carver seen beyond themselves, they seen into the images they created that was their higher self. Apart from Rilke and Nietzsche who seen into themselves and tried to mirror that, we see a higher calling beyond us beyond the image we are creating for Keats the image within him was the self and he only seen that because he seen death, his death. For me he is the only man I know that has reached that higher plain, through his negative capability his images have reached almost perfection.<br /><br />As Robert Lowell said imperfection is the language of art, many of my hero’s reached that almost perfection but always had a higher realm to reach so their images were always created with some god or other in mind but Keats was free of that realm and his images were so natural and intuitive, His nirvana was his nirvana his Valhalla avenue. He is and will always be the master, master crafting poetry. Many of these poets and a lot more I haven’t mentioned have reached the pinnacle but just haven’t reached that extra inch because the strength of their belief stopped them, Lowell and Kavanagh are a great example of this both enraptured and captured by a higher being.<br /><br />Maybe it’s because I am disabled and live in a broken shell that I can see beyond into the realm of words and like Keats and Carver I see my own death, my nirvana of life, death. I’m not saying and I never will say that I am near the standard of these masters, they sit in my heaven beyond honours and ego haloed by humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">I’m awake at 4am writing an imaginary tale.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Everything feels right as if it’s in its right place</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">All except me. This is my world, a world of alien-</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Nation, laying here in a profile bed waiting<br />Listening to a birdsong tweet its way into my ear-drum<br />As if I knew its language. Anything to kill the silence<br />Of a five hour wait, waiting for carers to come and<br />Dress my paralysed body. The birdsong falls to silence<br />But it’s still in my head like a memory but you know<br />You’re building a life of memories where you can exist.<br />Building a world to fill your formless brain,<br />As Buddhism say’s I am god creating. A world that fills<br />My locked in syndrome and my memory of 45 years<br />That was erased by the stroke that left me paralysed,<br />Un-able to walk or talk so this is my imagined essay.<br />An essay that’s lost in a dream somewhere<br />In a prose poem and this is the only way that</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">POETRY IS LIKE SUNSHINE IT’S FREE</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">What does this world want from me?</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">My words and my images are all I’ve got</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">You can take them there like sunshine free.</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">I’m trapped in this consumerist world</span><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">I can’t find a way in or out, I know<br />Were all trapped in our own world but<br />This is a consumerist broken hell, all<br />That I know is I have to get out but<br />I don’t know which way to go, do I?<br />Fall into the spending spree or into a dis-<br />Abled cell, all I can do is hope that<br />My poems don’t sell and my words show don’t tell.</span></span></span></div>
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I've been writing and rewriting my state of independence
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in 2005. This
world i live in is very frustrating, this is the last nail in my coffin as they
say or the only nail that I can hit on the head and hopefully someone out there
can place this in the hands of the person that controls my life. I am hoping that this new D.L.A. system
pip's. is more beneficial to me and my state of independence. In 2005 i was awarded middle rate D.L.A.
which is around four hundred a pound a month, i struggled for a while trying to
keep an adopted car on the road and for a while it was brilliant for my state
of independence my spirits were high i was going to concerts and readings, I
was living life as good as any able bodied person but then the economic crash
came and i began to feel the pinch. Can
anyone out there tell me how you can manage a car food gas internet telephone
petrol etc on four hundred pounds a month, how a person unable to walk or talk
paralysed down his right side can live alone independently, this issue has
baffled me for years how can a person that cant walk or talk be awarded middle
rate D.L.A. and a person who can walk and talk gets the full rate. I only want what is humanly possible I'm not
a sponger I'm a person that hopes there's a human bone out there
somewhere. I've had to give up my car
and my state of independence can anyone out help a fellow human that only wants
a life of human being. My spirits are
dropping lower and lower each day and this struggle for life in an uncaring
world is getting harder and harder each day.</span></span><br />
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I was a son, brother, husband, father,</div>
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The thing that almost kills you makes<br />Life worth it even though I’m dis-<br />Abled on a bedroom floor. They cliché<br />Life in ‘what doesn’t kill you makes<br />You stronger’, it breaks the golden rule<br />And creates the stanza of the moment<br />To become the pome of yet another day.<br />For a moment the locked in syndrome</span><br />
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My life. I am turning nothing into something<br />The magic of the blues that we live through.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I look around this room and realise my muse </span></div>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to keep me from drowning in dark.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Blazing my trail of hope.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Of treasure, the source that we call god.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Make love with my light in the dark.</span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;">AWAY IN A MANGER</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">'not that we become more God</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">but we become more godlike'.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Roberto Unger</span><br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-size: 13px;">My webcam shone like a star<br />Above my manger computer<br />Screen, my three wise men<br />Were on facebook waiting<br />To give me gifts on you tube.<br />I googled them and the stable<br />My home, I yahooed my wife<br />In the Philippines and I seen<br />A beautiful country but I felt<br />Life on the streets and I seen<br />Their beautiful smiles, isn’t it<br />Brilliant that people can do this<br />And we don’t feel so lost<br />And alone, this has become<br />My heart and soul its be-<br />Come my stable home.</span></span></div>
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Roberto Unger
My webcam shone like a star
Above my manger computer
Screen, my three wise men
Were on facebook waiting
To give me gifts on you tube.
I googled them and the stable
My home, I yahooed my wife
In the Philippines and I seen
A beautiful country but I felt
Life on the streets and I seen
Their beautiful smiles, isn’t it
Brilliant that people can do this
And we don’t feel so lost
And alone, this has become
My heart and soul its be-
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; color: cyan; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This is until I land it, I’m writing<br />This for me, to find the current<br />Flow and to know that it’s<br />A big bastard. You have to know<br />Where the current flows<br />And when to let it go. The scales<br />Are black and silver and it swim’s<br />Every colour in between. It me-<br />Anders through the water as if<br />It knows it can’t be caught.</span><br />
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Poetry and words have become a more spacious form ever since
my stroke they have become my very being, my creation my life force. I know this is a bit extreme but I wake and
sleep, I even dream verse. It's hard to
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">but they have transformed me from a comatose paralysed
jerryatrick vessel looking out a hospital window to a man living an almost
independent life driving an adopted car.
When I woke from the blackness of my stroke, I woke with a poem being
formed in my head. My brain had no
form, I was unable to walk or talk my brain was almost lifeless that had been
erased of 45 years of memory. Words
began to slot into place creating space and time, the brain is an amazing organ
the way it begins to create its own form and remembers the life you remember as
if it remembers instances that spark of a time and a place that makes you remember
and so your life has only one meaning to build up a bank of life you can invest
humanity in, words of true conviction words of higher meaning than you ever
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Everybody finds a source an inner music to help them through
the afterlife, I suppose ive been one of the lucky ones I loved my music so
teaching others my inner music became so natural I loved it and I think others
loved it. I came to words like a fish does
to water no one ever wrote before me from my family so I never understood all
these layers of literature and levels of ages like classical verse, modernist
verse and free verse, I came from the verse of the street that's the only verse
I knew, I had nothing or no-one to
compare to, no academic training I was just very honoured to be in the family
of words. I loved Dante, Chekov, Carver
and Kerouac, the classical the olde the free and the new its all the blues no
matter how you see it. Poetic words in
prose or poems all find a way of cutting through the levels and ages
of class non-sense to become the
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I was always trying to grasp the meaning of life but I think
as far back as primary school the alphabet pinned to the wall was my reason, as
Patrick Kavanagh said I grabbed an education early. I hated school I had my teacher, the alphabet running around my
head that was my teacher I didn't see the point of the rest it was all
regimental drill sergeant bullshit just like being in the army. School was just a kicking shop where you
learnt to kick back and you fought your way through the grades and learnt how
to take a dig because life was full of digs.
History art and English were all that interested me you knew a knocked past
to know a knocked future. School was as
regimental as the army stand in line jump to attention and do as your told I
always rebelled against authority, I
spent my whole life being told what to do.
My mother with her Dublin naive wisdom was all I needed, just one golden
rule of humanity never to do no one any harm.
she learnt that golden rule from her mum and she played it out on the
canals of Dublin as her mum( my nanny) was the unofficial midwife of Rathmines
and my mother was the unofficial woman of her day and ill be the unofficial unofficial poet of the north,un taught
and un grammared my favourite word in life was fuck, i was asked by a born
again christian not to use the word fuck, ok mate I said if you stop using the
word god around me and ill stop saying fuck, I never meant fuck to be an
offensive slang but they're tiny traditional minds could not see that. I always
wanted to be the unofficIal some-one from some-where, it felt like I was an
orphan and my fathers were the teachers of words I met along the way.</div>
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of Northern Ireland, were the saddest fuckers on the planet ruled by traditionalism. Let us take the sting out of mere four letter words like wasp, life, love, fuck, rose and embed them without offence in the list of humanity and wear them close to our hearts, they might just save your life one day.</div>
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they were finding my current like the words of a poem i
wrote for Patrick Kavanagh and Raymond Carver as part of my degree thesis, '
the clarity of wonder in the undercurrents'. words have become my spiritual
source meandering its current through my flow, I hope creating this bank of life
for another eight years.<br />
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Albert Camus asked the only real question left to mankind: how do we deal with suicide? and in the words of John Berryman who went down that road this is my blind brow. he knew that the only way around this problem was to find something higher than yourself and words became his dream songs, so this was my almighty being to help me over the last hurdle of life. i haven't believed in god since i was fourteen on the way to mass when i saw a man in a balaclava shoot three people dead and raise his rifle to the heavens and yell for god and ulster. from that day on i swore if that i would never again worship a god that man killed for, i swore i would have nothing to do with that god or the men that killed in his name. i am looking down into the abyss of disability and all i see is words, I'm laying here waiting for my carers to come and dress me into a wheelchair for the day and return tonight to undress me into bed and that's my day everyday, words are my respite. words have lifted through the darkest days and are swimming now around my head, the only thing that creates life building my bank of memory that finds its way in and out of my locked in syndrome.<br />
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These words have become my order of art, my modernism in my essay of intellectual deliverance.<br />
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Capable negativity is my way of understanding the uni-verse and the universe understanding me, the name comes from the poet Keats looking into his own death and being able to write such beautiful words. Without him i dont think i would be writing this blog today, we all need an inner light of some sort and this is mine.<br />
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WREATH<br />
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The wind breezes<br />
through the leaves<br />
like blue sky<br />
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Green shimmers a bouquet<br />
shivering in wind and all<br />
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I'm beginning this piece of writing with my hope, you can
call it what you will, an essay, memoir, pome or story it fits into all. I recall when I first took the stroke
laying flat on my back in a hospital ward, my brain erased of 45 years of
memory like a blob of porridge gruel, without form.</div>
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My friends were the only light in my sky up there on the
ceiling of shadow that created my world my Chinese opera of light and dark.</div>
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My body began to shut down and there was nothing I could do
only grip the blankets and hope that I didn't leave in a wooden box, people on
the ward were dropping like flies and I thought that I was next so I gripped
the blankets and went into a cold sweat thinking even the nurses were out to
kill me. I had no form of the norm I
was like an alien on a human planet I didn't even know the difference between
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A man called Billy from my ward had just died and a woman
beside my bed but I didn't know who or what or why, when your in hospital all
negativity is kept away from you. I was
surviving and tripping off the drugs that kept me alive sucking on tanks of
oxygen like an astronaut lost in space.
They made an appointment for a tracheotomy because I had difficulty with
my swallow, then they pencilled me in for to fit a peg feed to my stomach and
feed me through a tube. My friend peter
called and gave me a strawberry yoghurt and my body took its nourishment so
they cancelled the operation on my stomach, my body began to recover and I was
able to eat pureed food. things didn't seem so dark it seems like I was
pencilled in for life, they cut my
throat for the tracheotomy but my body rejected it, it didn't look like I was
going to live artificially which was a huge relief.</div>
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Im laying here eight years later waiting for my carers to
call at my independent home</div>
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thinking just how lucky I am to be alive, I really thought
that I would leave in a coffin. My
friends called just days later and took me out to a burger joint for a milk
shake and me being me in my die dog or shite the licence attitude I ordered a
burger and my friends cut it and made me be careful, my body began to nourish
itself. I remember we laughed so much that night it was like my
first laugh I had since the stroke, it was like a great weight had been lifted,
ill never forget that thank you peter and co.
Since then ive been able to drive my own adopted car and lead an almost
independent life that has given me a real life boost. I cant understand why the D.L.A. people haven't allowed me to
afford my car as I had to give it up due to cost but that's another issue. Im so grateful to be alive and paying homage
to these words that have been my saviour and
found solid form in my mind, my brain was reduced to almost
nothing. The brain is a wonderful organ
of recovery, the only way I can explain this alienation is like a baby in an
adults head. Words have found my inner
core and have imploded like a stroke of blogs and found this hope.</div>
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Don't get me wrong im not a blasphemer of spirituality, I
know we all need an inner light to guide us towards enlightenment. Every road I went down towards a spiritual
being no thing or entity seemed to have enough faith to take me past the last
hurdle of defeat where I must live in hopeful wonder. Words and John Keats and is negative
capability could take me beyond to find his light in death, he is my Jesus
Christ and god is in these words that unblocked the roads, this is my road
through these words of hope to hope.
This has been an amazing uplifting journey that I hope gives hope to all
disabled people that there is hope within us waiting for the right word to
trigger your determination in us to create syllables of hope. It lives within us like a true faith that
other faiths cannot reach, words have broken
me out of a locked in syndrome and found form to live as a human
being. I know I get blue days but when
I took the stroke I couldn't see these days, I thought I would end my days as a
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your every way, ive
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this over and over
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lost in every single
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These are my words of
wonder</div>
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abandoned out there
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These words are
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pouring</div>
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wonder in a
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they aren't just the
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the best order, they
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in me and your
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of the pome it slips
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words they are my
words of hope</div>
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that have found hope in time.<br />
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You have got to give a poem something of yourself and a
little time and respect before you can
wear the poem like the scales of Elizabeth bishop's fish or kick William
Stafford's dark over the edge and listen to the wilderness, finding a way into
a poem so that it expresses a truth, finding the poems essential loneliness.</div>
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I think its very respectful how the American writers pay
homage to their favourite writers before they begin to read a word of their
own, we need to learn from that and give thanks to the writers who inspired
us. The way that Ted Hughes seen the
fox thought on the page, poetry is a very solitary act, poetry is like the
souls spoke on a wheelchair turning through life at a different motion, all
words are disabled and need care to appear on the page but then its time to
share the poem, to much emphasis for me is put on plagiarism and copyright and
I think we have to learn to trust each other.</div>
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poets aren't marched into a stanza like a regimental troop,
ok we pay homage to the soldier war poets but we are breaking away from that
regimental conformity that corals us into nice neat stanzas, the road to poetry
isn't along the road of war upon war, we have got to break free of old regimes
and follow the beat poets the poets of the day into the new refreshing poems of
tomorrow. We are being cloned by the
past but we are moving forward with a captive mind into what Chezslaw Milosz
called 'a more spacious form' only with men like him are we free of old
regimental way's that feed our poetry and our education into a dog eat dog
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Only with our darkness and negativity of the past can we
turn this muck to gold and break the shackles of the past and step into the
enlightened future that awards people without the foot stomping circus act, we
are not a pack of performing animals we are a group of civilised people called
humanity without the brainwashed divides of war.</div>
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It's time to share things freely, honour and respect doesn't
come down to how much money you have in your pocket, ok, we have to live in a consumerist society but
don't let greed rule the day ok we need a little to get by but its getting out
of hand.</div>
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takes on board the criticism and turns your writing into a shared poem of
trust.</div>
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Good honest writing will always find a way through the
bullshit metre, we can see a lie a mile off.
Raymond carver in the book 'fires' says no tricks, we've got to be able to trust people and
just like giving and receiving a poem we've got to give and receive trust with
the magic of truth. There are no tricks
in writing you can read all the self help books you want and steal other
writers thunder but that wont make you into a writer, not until you stop
kidding yourself, there is only one
truth and that's your truth, write the poets essential loneliness and that
essential loneliness will come back and make you un-lonely.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">everywhere, the shell of home that</span><br />
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From day one his father told him he was a waste of space so
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publican who fought the British as a member of the I,R,A,
beyond the front door</div>
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in romantic rebel free Ireland but at home he was as bad as
the establishment he fought against, he was a walking contradiction, he could
never understand a man</div>
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that joined the British army to escape the traditional ways
and ended up fighting against the British.
He learned from an early age to skim the crème of the top and began by
stealing his fathers money out of his pockets while he slept, he never seen it
as stealing he felt he was taking the pocket money that was due to him. If his brother asked his father for fifty
pound he would put his hand into his pocket and give it naturally but if he
asked for 50p he was told to go away so he felt he was taking what was rightly
his, he ended up running away from home on four occasions to escape his
contradictory bullshit and leaving the home and family he loved because of his
fathers jealousy towards him. To him
his father was a tight ass, so he had no criminal intention towards him but he
was a miserable son of a bitch and from age thirteen he worked jobs as a
message boy for the local butchers and got up at 4 in the morning for a milk
run, he even stole the coins his father collected.</div>
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As a message boy he was seen going around the town on his
message boy bike that looked like a deformed chunk of metal and a chain, like
something he created out of scrap parts if he wasn't scooting around town the
blood was dripping from the meat parcel outside the snooker hall, the people
always got their meat after he had a frame or two. Every Friday the milk-man/driver left his money bag between the
seats and the motion of the van spilt money under his seat to gather there and
one day while the milkman was collecting rounds he lifted the seat to sea an
ocean of pocket money so every week he went home with his wage and a pocket
full of tips with this and the bags of money he stole each week from the
accounts desk that counted the costs for a week, even as doing good deeds for
his mother he done her shopping by walking into Dunnes stores holding a brown
paper bag blew up in his arms as if it was full and walk out with it full and
pocket the money into his pocket money sky rocket.</div>
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By sixteen he busted his father who hated his free and easy
way and was jealous of the relationship he had with his mother his father was
always telling him what to do, but he was reared with the naive wisdom of his
mother without morals but one golden rule of life never to do anyone any
harm. He left home at sixteen as the
atmosphere between him and his father was so thick it began affecting the
family, so he had a chat with his mum and they agreed is was best for everyone
so he went to live with his cousins in Stoke Newington. he bluffed his way first as a metal polisher
then a goldsmith cutting shapes with a diamond tip onto gold imitation watch
bracelets, London was a wild place and he was a wild boy who went with the
flow. Punk was on the go the year was 1977, he was a English boy who was called
a paddy because of his deep Belfast accent. he fitted in well and became one of
the many mad cultures on the streets of London, it was like being an extra in a
mad max movie. Everyone was from
everywhere and everybody had a licence to do whatever they wanted and blame the
punk way of life, he felt like he was part of the streets he was kicked along
and kicked teds soul boys skinheads and every creed and gang who heard his
accent and wanted a a piece of his
English /Irish action.</div>
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He didn't know where he was or what his real name was as he
came from the seed of a bastard son left on a doorstep, he fought his way
through the grades of life not knowing who he was from where. Everywhere he went he would just to go with
the streets flow, and the streets flow wasn't always the nicest. He didn't come from the traditional streets
of Belfast fighting a republican war, his war was against the regimental adults
trying to tell him what to do he wore the punk attitude on the sleeves of his
torn boating jacket held together with pins.
He went to London to get away from the violence on the streets and
walked into a culture that kicked your head in for dancing to fast, nobody knew
what to do so any thing went. by the
first while he'd robbed a factory got caught by the old bill who kicked him
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interrogating him to tell them his parents address who beat
him and wanted to deport him, he told them they had a nervous disposition who would take a heart attack so the judge
was leneant and gave him a hefty fine and community service but he never paid
it and went home, he had enough of London and its drugs and back alley ways
that was supposed to broaden your mind, instead it closed down his one golden
rule of life and began to suffocate his soul.
Back to his fathers confused rath and his bullshit bastard life, it
seemed like everywhere he went his fathers bastard past was following through
the streets.<br />
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The building blocks of life are E,G,O, as if were made from Lego,
that's why we love it because its the building blocks of the future the nearest
structure to live DNA we can hold in our hands, I know you think Adrian has lost it the poor guy has to much time
on hands, has away with the fairies but everything comes down to state-us, even
the social networks and online shops who have the power because they control
our state- us. Im not writing this to
start a revolution, this is not new Nietzsche, George Orwell and Bertrand Russell
and the true legislators have been telling us for years this is just my version
of today.</div>
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Yes I have to much time on my hands, I'm lecturing to you
and me I'm one of those Lego people with a social network and a Amazon account,
my whole point is to make us aware of our ego and our state-us in this snobby
slant that doesn't mean were better than anybody else. Being aware of the tiny details of life that
create our bigger picture and shifts power into us and makes us confident
creators, instinctive more rounded human beings. So lets break down the snobby coloured Lego and build the foundations
for a better world not based on honour and snobbery but a state-us of the real
you and me and be part of an exciting social network and a finer structure of life, after all we are the creators of this world we live in so
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">AN ODE TO TRUTH</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">' beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">John Keats died for humanity</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">it came to me like a bolt from blue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">it galloped right out of a dream</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">as if he was speaking his blue true.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The truth of his negative capability </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">is walking around in you, do you </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">want the truth of the stable-boy </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">do you want what's living and true.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">he died from disease, his dis-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">ease was his truth and the truth</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">is better than fiction and that's all </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">you need to know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">Written in 1817
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";"> rewritten in 2013 by Adrian Fox<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">It is a strange
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">where time and
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in toil of half-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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space and time in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of time unmarked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">The old man sits
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">No shapely kiss
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">limbo walled a
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<span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style";">a ghostly swirl
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'<i>it is important that awake people be awake'</i><br />
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William Stafford made me see be-</div>
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yond 1942 and the world war </div>
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he refused to fight for.
Beyond</div>
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the old aggressions, past</div>
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the rained on silverside</div>
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and the golden brown sunny</div>
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side of my shed.
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and white budding </div>
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the civil rights war that be-</div>
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came the civil wrong.
Past</div>
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my Mother playing by the Grand Canal</div>
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in Dublin and my Father throwing stones</div>
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into a murky pond in Belfast. Past</div>
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my granny and grandpa dreaming</div>
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of a nation once again, beyond</div>
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my children's pride my grandsons</div>
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smiles and me.</div>
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I'm on the border and I can see through</div>
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his dark standing at the side of the road</div>
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between animal and human and I kick</div>
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'imperfection is the language of art'</div>
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We have lived this blame game for years </div>
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a them and us society, everybody blames everybody </div>
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for not having things. We have created such a divide </div>
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the good and the evil.</div>
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love and hate live together and good and evil right </div>
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and wrong live in one non judgemental society </div>
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where right is wrong and good is evil we are all just </div>
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humans who make mistakes but lets be tolerant </div>
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were all right and were all wrong were all good and were all
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but isn't this a wonderful imperfect world.</div>
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ABSTRACT HEAD</div>
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He studied that form</div>
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‘The face’</div>
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for ten years</div>
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to see what we cant see.</div>
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I can see myself</div>
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evolve</div>
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literally im living for this</div>
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In my world of poetry and art</div>
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the weight of my soul is within</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">'I have two luxuries to brood over,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">your loveliness and the hour of my death'.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">in the shipwreck futures salty brine among</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">the mean streets beneath the bells of bow.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
OF SUFFERING</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>'remember humanity
forget the rest'<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I'm not delivering an essay from some twisted ongoing
vandetta but I thought I was living a lie by my father from his twisted lying
bastard past, I have accepted that I must find my truth in art but humanity has
been lied to, we live in a moral maze even if we don't believe in a fairytale
god, we don't know what we believe in this twisted moral maze. Christianity has brain washed us into this
twisted moral maze and we must untwist ourselves into our truth for humanity to
find any truth, progress. Humanity has
been raped and pillaged by a twisted belief that has hijacked spirituality and raped mother earth.
I think its time that humanity found it's way it's truth.</div>
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Humanity has been in a stale-mate for centuries Christianity
has robbed everything good that was in paganism and has violated mother earth
and if this essay only works on one level my level to find my truth well then
that's good enough for me.</div>
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At the end of the day this is only what I believe, I am
believer in truth so you believe what you want. life as we know it was created from a negative capability,</div>
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we have to be more honest with ourselves and accept what
Keats called the negative capability and face death and the knowledge of
suffering. im not saying we have to
walk around like the cheisher cat that shit with big stupid sentimental grins
lost in a nursery rhyme fairytale but we have to face the truth of life which
is the truth of death. Keats faced this
truth of death in life and was a wonderful human being</div>
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another wonderful human being said :</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><i><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Who ever does not sometimes give
full consent, and a joyous consent, to the dreadfulness of life, can never
possess the utterable richness and power of existence</span></i></b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">."</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rainer Maria Rilke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Life and all its magic beauty was created by the big bang
theory so we have to face the suffering of life and stop living in this bubble
of fairytale creation and face up to life and stop burying our heads in
sentimentality. the only way for us to
become like Keats and Rilke and hold true humanity in our hands is face the
truth and become one with nature. Keats
had to go away to find the truth and rilke had to struggle in isolation to find
this magic and say what a true mans tells himself and stops lying to himself,
it feels like were walking away from humanity, were on the way down so lets go
down to come up.</div>
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For a lifetime we have lived in confessional boxes of
secrets and lies that have fuelled holy war and abuse well I'm taking no more,
my family has died and killed themselves through drink over this land because
of these pervert liars who are allowed to twist our children's minds, these are
weak twisted people who live in another century. Never again in my life will I put my foot into a church, they
have sucked me dry and we pay these people to abuse our kindness, we must
accept the real law of the land not a carnal canon law that bends you over a
desk and fucks you up the ass. I'm
taking it no more I am living in the real world where I accept the reality of
life and my negativity turns my life into realism not lies upon lies upon lies
that twist life into a sentimental fairytale.
my mother has lived a life of poverty and lies in a holy abused war, we
are free from the clutches of our minds being warped by corruption and lies
that has fed of our suffering as if they have a monopoly on death and
dying. Death is a beautiful thing and
we have been told that it is wrong but until we embrace death as a part of life
that is as magic as life itself and the people left behind embrace their giving
of life from a warm un-twisted human being, then only then will we have a true
life left to create the true path of humanity.
I'm sorry if I have offended anybody I am not saying this to shove my opinion down your throat but all I
ask is you read this my truth and wake up and go your own way. This is only my truth and you have yours but as they said in a song on the album Rumours, 'go your
own way'. John Keats the great truthful
poet of humanity said:</div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">'<span style="color: yellow;">There is a flaw in
happiness to see beyond our bourn-<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it forces us in summer skies
to mourn,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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It seems we pay to get into this world and we pay when we
leave, its as if the church has a toll charge on life and death. Keats and Rilke live and die up to the statement of Shelly's that poets
are the true legislators of the world, theses are two exceptional human beings
who embraced their truth and went their own way so I would say true poets are
the true legislators of the world. The
more truth and knowledge of suffering we learn the less we need the church to
live our lives for us. The
man of achievement can only be reached through the un-certainty truth and
beauty, it seems humanity is at a checkpoint and life is in a limbo state we
live in a world full of lies and corruption so lets be exceptional human beings
and face truth through the life of death and be the guardians of ourselves
honest true human beings with the licenses of truth. we can only move forward through truth when we stop lying to
ourselves. </div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">THE MAN WHO FELL </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">TO EARTH</span></div>
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<i>'Poets don't know what
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<i>if they did it
wouldn't be done'<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Why I'm sitting here with a masters degree and four books of
poetry published is beyond me, no one in my family ever wrote. I was born in Kent and all I can remember is
a block of council flats in London where the rubbish was shoved into a shute
that was my technology my progress.
Seems I was born on the streets, I recall</div>
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playing with my brother in a pedal car, I grew up in a room
full of t-chests and picture frame markings on the wall not knowing if the
family were moving in or out. I spent
my first years in that state of unknowing as if the walls were stamped by a
bastard bureaucrat who didn't know where he belonged. I was born into this bastard flow listening to my fathers
Northern Ireland hard man republican rhetoric and my mothers naive Dublin
wisdom, I grew up in a quea sah rah utterance of not knowing what to do,
nothing much has changed as I still don't know what im doing. I just went with the flow as long as my high
chair was piled with food I didn't care.
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The only books I ever read were on Hollywood and the I.R.A.
so I grew up in a movie of grave yard vigil like gone with the wind with the
wind that shakes the barley as the civil war scenes. I was reared into that
realm of un-knowing, born on that republican border, my father was born and
placed in a basket by a door in north Belfast, each one of us six siblings were
born in different towns as we were like a brood of gypsies moving home and school
running from my fathers bastard past.
Why im in a room full of dead poets musician hero's is beyond me, I
don't know where my gift of literature came from, I might not know very much
but I know good writing, I don't know where the rhythm of life came from. I wasn't any good at school in fact I hated
it, I had no interest and hated authority so school was just a kicking shop for
me and I fought everyday through the grades being the little English boy kicked
up and down the playground I became good with my boot the only thing was I
didn't know and still don't know what boot to kick with I passed my street
exams fighting one of the best fighters in the school.</div>
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Between my bad boyness being beaten down by regimental
adults and me breaking windows and being expelled I got what kavanagh called a
basic education, I was always good at English and art but only one teacher knew
that, a mister o' Donohue</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">my secondary school form teacher, when he recited
stories poems and literature I became hypnotised by the tales of Gulliver's travels or plays by
Shakespeare as I could relate them to life on the troubled streets of
Ireland. I was in a dunce class where
teachers left the room stabbed by compasses but when my form teacher recited
literature I went his way and shunned all my friends messing. I remember walking into the assembly hall
for my maths exam signing my name neatly at the top of the page and walking out
to get four percent, that was my pass I went out and punched the sky as if I
had failed and beat the bastards,all I wanted was to leave school get a job and
earn my own money and tell my miserable cunt of a dad to fuck off and I done that walking into the house smoking and
we fought by the fridge and I busted him and went to London, the year was 77'
wearing a boating jacket ripped to shreds and held together with pins. Everywhere I went I scribbled down the words
of the street being into punk before punk listening to Lou Reed and David Bowie
when I heard bowie and Lou reed in a friends bedroom in Dundalk in 1974 it was
as if we took heroine and fell wanking in the hall and here's to you and me
boys. The literature of the streets was
living my life and I was a part of those songs poems and plays. I began to dress like a john cooper Clark
figure with make up and undertakers hats with nail varnish, because I was sent
on interviews by the job centre I wore nail varnish not to get the jobs I
didn't want to work, my favourite song was career opportunities by the Clash
that went, '<i>career opportunities no one
will ever know every job they offer you is to keep you of the dole'</i>, I
still live by that today, I was a boy
from the black stuff the Northern Irish black stuff an alternative Ulster. Now I have an M.A. hanging on the wall
beside my paintings and published books of life, I might be in a wheelchair but in here theres still the soul of a
punk writing his way out of this capitalist traditional life, I was never was just
a prod or a taigsitting on the fence this was my war, I was always a fucking
human from planet fucking earth.</span></div>
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clouds-drift</div>
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sun-shines</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">' beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Keats has given us the gift </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #073763; display: inline; text-align: left;">of the grief of life </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Raz-rat woke to yet another damp lonely day, as the church
bells rang and the rain fell he sat by the window writing a poem he fell into,
into the solitude of his writing where bells of art rang from a majestic
masterpiece, as if his voice had the voice of art, expressing himself only
through his art form. Where the bells
of god couldn't influence his words, a place where words flowed with inner
peace not warped by a brain washed mind, 'why cant I stand on my own two feet',
he asked and laughed at the fact that he couldn't even walk or stand.</span><br />
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his hero and he believed him to be the godfather of punk that began in the
eighteen hundreds, he was the men of men, he was a true man of conviction, a
man relived through these words that were written over two hundred years ago
but they rang with the truth and naturalness of today as if they were his
words, even when he read them back to himself while typing they sounded like
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<span style="color: #073763;">The poems flowed from him like seeds of truth writ for the
hope of the future. he didn't reject
god but he could not live in a sentimental fairytale world of hypocrisy, where
god was being abused and twisted by man, he needed truth and reality for his
pomes. We have been lied to for to long
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<span style="color: #073763;">on his way to a mock confessional climbing the steps of holy
cross church in Belfast in the early 70's as he strode the steps armed with a
cheap plastic mother of pearl prayer book, he heard gunfire from behind and he
ducked into the bushes to see a man with a machine gun held in the air yelling
for god and Ulster standing over three dead bodies. it was as if he blinked and took a photo and etched it into his
mind like the image of a Russian propaganda poster forever scarred into his
mind. I want nothing to do with a god
that is being used to kill, he looked down at the prayer book and up at the
great doors threw the prayer book away and ran home crying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">only now can we live true lives in a true world through art,
'god is dead', art is the true meaning of life, I must break free of this molly
cuddled society where man has been brain washed and cant stand alone in the
world of truth, he looked into the pools of the worlds tears and said<i>:
'man is a rope stretched between animal and superman, a rope over the
abyss, what is great in man and art is it is the bridge reaching the other
shore'</i>. a spirit rose from within and poetry flowed out and he versed a
spirit of truth, filled with life and death, the grief of life he never hid
away behind the gravestones of the past.
his poetry spoke of man in the dream of god, intoxicated in the theory
of good and evil in the confusion of right and wrong, he saw man within his
guilt in the bowels of other worlds like the Dantes illustrations to hell. Write with blood for blood is the spirit of
the little boy who walks alone shrouded in thick melancholy.</span></div>
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we love you, I know the hatred and envy
of your hearts, be great enough to be ashamed, step away from holy war and do
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<span style="color: #073763;">I give you bread and medicine to my friend for there is
truth in friendship. this is the night
song the fountain of dark, this is the soul of soul and it sings like a
lark. this is the black hole that sings
with light, I give to you the grave song and this is my wreath of life for you
to celebrate the wept journey.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">is a spiritual entity that fills the void of ignorance and un-</span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">intelligence. I'm not saying one is any better than the other</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">but Zarathrustra is conjured up more in the modern world</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">where god is outdated, god speaks to us from the bible</span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">written thousands of years ago and the superman maxims</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">were written only hundreds of years ago and are closer</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">to the truth of how we live today, the god parables speak</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">of holy war crusades but in the knowledgeable mind we</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">are past holy wars that go against. The only way to move</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">forward is to stop this cycle of violence, I know we cant reach</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: 10pt;">a utopian perfection but lets get as close as we can, man needs</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">well be a stream of sewer run-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">ning through the middle ages</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Were still listening to helicopters</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">cutting the sky, trying to imprison</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the Real I.R.A. and this is supposed to</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">be a time of peace.
Life still feels</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">like a them and us state shaped</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">like a piece of coal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When are the true legislators going</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">to be allowed to stand up in a stanza</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and hail poetic freedom from the un-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">flagged rooftops. Were
drowning in</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">this consumerist mud.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When are we going to turn this muck</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">into gold and face the fact that life</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">has two sides to each coin and stop</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">playing the one sided blame game</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">celebrating the righteous chosen few</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We are all people of this one nation</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">standing up in this stanza of seen- </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">through, so lets celebrate the death</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">of life and get on with the life of death?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">THE GEMS OF REALITY<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"Who ever does not sometimes give full consent, and a
joyous consent, to the dreadfulness of life, can never possess the utterable
richness and power of existence."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> Rainer
Maria Rilke</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke are alive today in their
words of magic, spinning their thread of poetry in a web of modernist negative
capability through the world of economic strife, making us accept the dark gems
of reality and see who we really are.
The real me and you without the lies of false consumerism, this
hopelessness is bringing us down to earth where we hit the ground running and
create magical poems songs and art that will fill us with the spirit of the
masters, as Patrick Kavanagh said "poverty is good for the soul". These true men of conviction are protecting
us in a balm against the silly sentimental shallowness of celebrity
manufactured culture and the greed of consumerism in a throw away political
nonsense society. They are chiselling
away like masons of the tongue on headstones rising from the earth in our
graveyard of truth like pods that will cast the blogs of tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This is the time to wake up to the world of human frailty
and stop hiding behind the hem of Christianity. I'm not out to offend or blaspheme, I know we all need
spirituality but lets fill the cathedrals with music art and poetry. Christianity was a wonderful cloak against
the middle ages but there's something flawed in a society when they hail a man
in a dress in a pope mobile when there are people in the world without the
mobility of a wheelchair and access to take them to the street corner. To a society that puts a singer/paedophile
in jail and a leader of paedophiles in a dress on a stage. Lets bail Christianity out and save it any
more sex scandals or holy war embarrassments of going against the grain of
mod-ernism. We cant have the
spirituality of yesterday clashing with the realism of tomorrow. I apologise if anyone is offended but as Tom
Waits said get down of the cross we need the wood to build an infrastructure
that helps people, were not building a them and us state or a judgemental
society in a dog eat dog world, stop this blame game, you don't need religion
to be spiritual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Don't get me wrong I'm not an angry god hater, its man I
have the problem with, I just hate organised religion and liars. We are not Prods or Taigs or Isralei
Palastinians we are humans, Religion has caused divisions within us that
started war all over the world. we
spend millions on defence while we live in poverty watching the fire works
display of war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"> A MEADOWBROOK
ELEGY WRIT INTO AN ODE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What might blossom from the muse tree</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and spread its wings like an angel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">locked in this cell of dark worship, I am</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">compiling a disabled autistic symmetry</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of words looking from the inside out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">among the cold stanza's
and soiled brush-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">strokes, even if I was
dipped in the muse-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I would die in their
force of being, for beauty</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">is the infant within
truth and wonder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">every art holds a
terrible beauty and I in-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">spect mine before
spitting out my black cry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">we are amazed when touched with dark hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">who can help us now? only art not angels or man-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">kind manning the barricades of ignorance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the branch of tree on that black hill aches </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">a numb and lonely pain</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">As though a sad elixir were shot through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A pale faced melancholy rises evaporating </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">rivers of sentimental happiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The winged leaves of
nature</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sing the notes of
spring, summer, autumn</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And winter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It’s as if at birth I
was given a dose </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Of negative capability
and even in this death</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Of life my poetic mind
it is tinged with a glimmer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Flying in this moment on wheel-chaired chariots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I feel the flowers at my feet and the rains upon </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">my brow embalmed in un-adopted darkness</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">within this waking dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">It is a flaw in happiness, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">to see beyond our bourn-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">it
forces us in summer skies to mourn, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">it spoils the singing of the nightingale.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> John Keats</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">PRAYER</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Poetry is as Robert frost said ‘the sound of sense’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And as Robert Creely said ‘you write the senses</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In front of you’. In
writing poetry we fill in the gaps</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Of sense to help us understand this mess, trying to</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Bridge the gap between the pen and the pure page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Projecting the past into a readable present.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Every day a poet has a new beginning a rebirth</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A smudge of reality on the clean page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Poetry is like jazz music it trembles to caress</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The vibrations of life.
We live in this moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And because of what we see and hear, dwelling</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In this reality our attitude to the language dictates</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What we write. Because of what I seen when I was a boy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And as a poet ill try to capture that:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I Strode the steps of holy cross church</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">trying to stride two steps at a time</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Armed with a cheap plastic prayer-book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Just as I was approaching the great doors</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I heard gunfire from behind, I turned to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A man in a balaclava holding a gun in the air</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Victorious he yelled for god and Ulster</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Standing over three dead bodies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I looked at the prayer-book the gun in the sky</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And the great doors and threw my prayer-book</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Away and ran home crying.</span></span></div>
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<u style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A WHEELCHAIR AND A WINDOW</span></u></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I was trying to find a nice way into these words but the
only way is through a bastard life, I cant paint the fact that my father was
left at a doorstep in a basket and I took a stroke aged 45 paralysed confined
to a wheelchair. I couldn't even begin
to fathom how bleak his young life was growing up on the cobbled streets of
Belfast in the 30s, it must have been like living in hell for a young boy
growing up with the word bastard echoing streets and alleyways like a
chant. He left home aged fifteen said
he was seventeen went to England and joined the British army. All my life I have lived his lie, I am one
of six kids born in different towns in England, Birmingham, London, Coventry
Kent and Belfast his lie running away, every word that came from his mouth was
a lie. these words are my truth so
these truths are written for my Father John Joseph fox- Irvine, I don't even know if thats his real name but
as he called everybody he never knew Jim so this is for Jim- John- Joe- Sean whoever,
my da, I think ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Being a poet/artist I wanted literature and poetry to run
through the veins of these words, I was trying to find a link with the words of
great men. I was leafing through</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">' finders keepers' Seamus Heaney's book of selected
prose and the only link I could find was a title for this book 'losers weepers'
realising that our lives were lived on different planets, the academic world
and my world were total opposites, so as Keats said, '<i>sorrow is wisdom'</i>, I hope you find hope in my bleakness I know I
found magic in writing it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">I was born in Kent England in 1961 of Irish parents, my
mother from Dublin and my Father from Belfast so I grew up with a southern
romantic view of Ireland and the harsh reality of Northern Ireland . I don't remember to much of England, being
stuck in a lift in a pram on the isle of dogs, my sister beating a boy in a
wendy house and my brother cutting his hand, so England for me was just a block
of flats where the pictures were removed and put in t-chests and life was
stamped on the walls not knowing if the family were moving in or out. The first six years of my life was spent in
a highchair in this world of unknowing if I was coming or going. The first traumatic thing i remember was
aboard an aeroplane taxi-ing onto the runway of aldergrove airport Belfast
being jolted back and forth like a rag doll and my father saying i was too
sensitive and needed to much attention and my mother holding my hand saying hes
only a child, filling three sick bags, i suppose i was somewhere in between a
sensitive/harsh little boy maybe it was
that hard sensitivity that moulded me into a writer. The first years of my life was spent in that state of unknowing
moving home and changing school every six or seven months, after a while it
became the norm and we were like modern day travellers. Belfast during the troubles <span style="font-size: 12pt;">was the safest place for my father to hide his anxiety
and paranoia and find trust in his lies.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">he almost became a normal father bringing home a treat from work on friday
nights, if there is such a thing?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and blue sky, jet streams</span></span></div>
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poem or a good piece of art</span></div>
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T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-S</span></div>
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You into a magic moment</span></div>
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realisation or his or her</span></div>
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R-E-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N</span></div>
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of that piece of art clicks.</span></div>
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moment we are taken from this </span></div>
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H-U-M
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<span style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: white; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> WORLD.</span></div>
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great lines, this flock of words</span></div>
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dance or music this sculpture </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: white; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> OF
FORM.</span></div>
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sum up a time and a place</span></div>
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that moment with contentment</span></div>
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BUT IT’S A MOMENT.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shadow </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from the dream </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">having all of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A catalyst without ink to stain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">undulating through fingerprint</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">silk-screen frames.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White on white but there </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in sleep </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was a bomb-</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">blast of colour </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">like a painting by a master.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the wind and rain settles</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the words i had stored</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for this poem lie </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fragmented </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">INSIDE OUT</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">NO, no, no, go not in-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">to the darkness with-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">in darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The door will close <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and will not let you out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">For you life is with-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">out a purpose so <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">create a purr-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pose within <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">these words.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> Rilke </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A FOUND POME<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I want to go out there<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And shower myself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I want to feel it on my scalp<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Trickle down my fore head<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And fall from my eye-lids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Don’t get me wrong I’m male<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Not afraid to cry, it pelts in<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Broke’. I want to
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Just as I wheelchair the rain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I wait in the long pause let it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Ferment in my brain, smother me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In love, I want to go sit on my door-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A COLD SON OF A
BITCH</span></span></span><br />
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‘yet why not say what happened’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Robert Lowell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was like the interior of a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">well worn tea pot or the inside of his lungs sucking on yet
another cigarette.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The street light threw a subtle pastel glow on the still
housing estate, the red rusted <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">stuck in and fix that car tomorrow’. He dropped a few sleeping pills and rinsed
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">down with a cold swig of tea and ‘ill have to clean this
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">climbing the stairs.
He dreamed the usual sixty year old dream of young ladies <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">running naked through summer meadows. When he woke it was those abstract <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">images of memory that disturbed him and lingered like a
blunt saw through his aching <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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suffering fucking hell he told himself throwing cold water over his face <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">as if extinguishing the image in the mirror and the reality
of his bald head and pointed <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">features. The stench
of his loss lingered with every step he took down those steps<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">where once walked the wife and mother of his dreams. He could almost see her <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">walking down those stairs to meet the day with that irish
strength that pushed the sore <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Im a loser he told himself a stupid bastard remembering being <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">an infant in a basket found on a front door, a single droplet of salted tear fell from <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">his hard Belfast exterior he brushed the tear aside like the murdering bullet from
an<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">armalite rifle. As he
ejected the stale teabags from the teapot he thought I have to go <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">doctors today and get that dla form filled in and get a
mobility allowance and have a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">new car instead of that almost unrepairable rusted old
banger. He remembered how<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the car looked in the nights subtle pastel glow, and said god you’re a bastard you and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">your cold light of morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He sat in the doctors waiting room trying to remember good
times like his first born <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">or his wedding day but this annoying ugly kid kept shoving
leaflets in his face about <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">cancer of the bollox and depression. Just as he was about to smack the kid up the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">head he heard the broken english voice of the Pakistani
doctor call his name on the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">tanoi like a conductor on a bus. As the doctor filled in a section of the dla
form and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">wrote some prescriptions for depression angina headaches and
the general feeling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">that life is a sick load of balls. John was calling him a
black bastard in his mind <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">because he asked him exaggerate his findings on the form and
received instead <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">a lecture on the ethics of medicine. John was a bigot he didn’t know how to be <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">anything else, he hated blacks, pakis, Chinese as well as all those beautiful <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">women he could not have and especially that bitch that left
him after thirty one years <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">and six children. He
walked home through the maze of housing estates with his bag <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of pills for every ill but the aching black hole in his
heart. Going past the derelict <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">houses full of grafitti he remembered the night the police
man called.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The shadow of black cap was cast off and fell through the
hall like the black cloud of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Depression, ‘your
daughters have been searching for you’ screeched, crashing with a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">families laughter.
Those words rang through his mind like the word bastard the winds <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of a harsh winter reminding him that life can be a cold son
of a bitch. He passed the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">old decrepid bettle without an engine with out much hope of
ever pumping fluid <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">through its rotten pipes.
He opened the front door and half expected his wife to pass <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">him and his children playing music and busying around the
house, instead he was met <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">by the grey stench of loneliness. He stood by the sink steadying himself as
those <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">words pounded through his head he washed down paracetamol
and an anti depressant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">His head pounded filled with anxiety he staggered into the
living room and threw <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">himself on the sofa putting his feet up on the coffee table
between the carbareatur .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And the innards of a TV he was trying to fix. He then stood up over the hearth and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">placed a little blue tablet below his tongue and his heart
rate began to fall and he was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">able to catch his breath and relax. He climbed the stairs and threw himself on
the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">single bed this is my bed I must lie in it he told himself
and looked through the ceiling <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">through the grey sky through the galaxy of stars burning in
the darkness of his sight <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">crumpled up into a little boy and cried himself to
sleep. He woke with the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">hope of a thirty year old man he debt, he bounded out of bed to tackle the
unbeatable <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">day, ‘you cant beat a
good cry’, he told himself throwing water about his worn <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">features. He brushed
the hair from the nape of his neck to cover his bald patch and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">brought it to a point on his forehead. He sang walking down the stairs a song he
sang <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">to his children when they cried, ‘you don’t have to be a baaa
aaby to cry’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Opening a cupboard in the hall he dragged a filthy pair of
overalls from a pile of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">clothes on the floor and stepped into them tucked his hair
into a tweed cap and lifted <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the toolbox. The morning
was a little cool but the sun was coming up strong above<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the grey housing estate, ‘ this is gonna be a good day’, he
thought sucking in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">almost fresh air.
Opening the passanger door of the car creaking like a great sigh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">reaching in he delved between unsecured seating busted wings and an exhaust <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">hauling a jack from the debris. He took the cross shaped wheel brace and
placed it on <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">one of the four nuts,
before taking hold he stooped and spat on his hands taking hold <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">he gripped the brace and turned with all his might and tried
to budge the nut as if it <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">was his last task on earth.
He cursed the car and gave it everything he had, all a sixty <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">year old worn heart could muster. A heart like a prune without syrup dried and
left in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">the searing desert of hurt to long,’ ya red bastard, ya
german fucker, ya useless heap <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of shit, he mumbled
as the sweat broke on his brow. He
rested a while leaning <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">against his dream and took a cigarette from his top pocket
lit and sucked, he licked the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">beads of sweat that fell across his lips he ran his tongue
across his lips once more they <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">were cold and grey he licked once more unsure and tasted
death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b>A CARE PLAN</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A line of jet stream<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Shoots across the sky<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And clouds my view.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I'm as free as a carers time-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Table, a bundle of shit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Tied up in the middle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I’m dressed like a rag-doll<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And left at the breakfast table<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">To take thirteen a day, tablets<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">To balance me-my mood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2>
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<u><br /></u>
<u>UN-BROKE</u><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">My imagination was running wild<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Chopped up by a chainsaw being filed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3uipriARK2eAME1GjFMbnh5F-xyE4ANjf68Qcaya8f-c79OOly99tEZ25P64x2wIUs3boX0ScU4jW5RuoPKATSEyI2GtqFqMYAeG2BjH-hs9yD3LCjm4pz8MDofzSWK41CZkPnfwUk0X/s1600/100_1153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: small;">Cof-fined like a piece of trash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Mind scrambled and reality mashed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">My throat cut for a track-e-otomy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">My body rejected, does no-more for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Frustration of having no emergency cord,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Locked-in-syndrome-alphabet bored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">In physio I couldn’t put my foot on the floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Speech-therapy was like ahhhh nursery chore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">I spent my days looking out a window at Foster </span><span style="font-size: small;">Green, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">my life was a poetic land-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">scaped scene.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Meal times was like one flew over my cuckoos nest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With brain damaged injuries abused like incest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don’t ever want to forget those days even if it makes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Me sad today, laughing with nurses pulled me through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Poetry art and my children gave me life’s clue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It don’t matter if you have puberty or a stroke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">accept your lot and you’ll be un-broke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">We live in a dog eat
dog world but </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">I' m not barking or
biting back.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">It's survival of the
fittest</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">and I aint very fit,
I live each day</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">on honesty-these
words</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">are my only
truth. Poetry and art</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">are all i have so I
give them</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN">away for free, wev'e
got to give </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;">to get so when will
you see me? <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span><b><u><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></u></b></span></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></u></b>
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<b><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">MY BLUE DISABLED DOOR</span></span></u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I.M. of Dennis o Driscoll<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">My blue disabled door<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Opens automatic and al-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Most lets a visitor in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well I can pretend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The ghost of Christmas past<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Came in and walked out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The door is on a cycle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It closes after thirty seconds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So guests just come and go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Halfway down the hall, I stopped<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And turned back to slurp my soup.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I was going to listen to a poet read<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">On you tube, this is real poetry <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I thought and through the silence <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I heard your poem-‘Someone’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;"> THE PURE POET</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Somebody once said that some men aren’t meant to be happy
they are meant to be great, Patrick Kavanagh is one such man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seen himself beyond himself beyond poverty,
Mucker, Dublin and even beyond his reality of spirit that he found on the ‘grand
canal’ bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only when we are lost are
we found, only when something is taken from us do we find an Inner strength, at
the moment he wrote that poem/leafy with love and the green waters of the canal/
or the moment that Raymond Carver reached out in the poem to shake the doctors
hand in ‘what the doctor said’ or the moment that Robert Lowell wrote epilogue
and the line’ imperfection is the language of art’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">There are lots of magic moments in poetry the list is
endless, it is them moments that make life worth living for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might have had a lung removed and tossed
into the hospital incinerator but the day he walked the grand canal banks his
soul was on fire and he almost joined the ranks of the pure poet with Keats and
Rilke, just when he reached the pinnacle of poetic words god takes over the
poem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Patrick Kavanagh and Raymond carver are my reason for
writing, they gave me the confidence to write these words, I love carvers
filthy realism, ive read him and Kavanagh for years and everytime I read Kavanaghs
selected or collected I want to read them without god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The soil and the poverty would be so much
richer without god and that’s my opinion, I believe that Christianity has
ruined this country, the conflict in this country has been going on for 300
years and once we were finished with that we had the church sex scandals, I
believe that Christianity the cause of both scandals has hindered this country
and put us on the back burner where we play catch up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in my creative writing classes I hated
the word god in a poem or the essence of god, the power and the majesty that we’ve
placed on three letters is to much for any poem to hold so for me poems with
the word god crumble.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I was 14 when this happened on my way to a mock confirmation
mass</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">PRAYER</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Poetry is as Robert frost said ‘the sound of sense’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And as Robert Creeley said ‘you write the senses</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In front of you’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
writing poetry we fill in the gaps</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Of sense to help us understand this mess, trying to</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Bridge the gap between the pen and the pure page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Projecting the past into a readable present.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Every day a poet has a new beginning a rebirth</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A smudge of reality on the clean page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Poetry is like jazz music it trembles to caress</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The vibrations of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We live in this moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And because of what we see and hear,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dwelling</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In this reality our attitude to the language dictates</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What we write. Because of what I seen </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">when I was a boy, ill try to capture that:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Striding the steps of holy cross church</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Armed with a cheap plastic prayer-book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Just as I was approaching the great doors</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I heard gunfire from behind, I turned to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A man in a balaclava holding a gun in the air</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Victorious he yelled for god and Ulster</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Standing over three dead bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">At the prayer book, the great doors and ran home crying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Before I say any more and offend people I should explain
that I have no problem with the entity its how people interperate it, just like
the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh I’m going to try and remove god from a poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that’s going to be difficult because Kavanaghs
poems are god and that time and place is Kavanagh and the Irish people but
other poets do it so well and don’t have to mention the word god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kavanagh has passed into the realm of great
men whether he mentions god or not but just for my sake god doesn’t live here and
my perfect world would be to read without god and to put him back on the shelf
between Keats and Rilke.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">My belief is that Kavanagh would be a greater than great man
without the man.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A poet has to stand and be counted and let the words do the
talking, I think his poems</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Would be richer and wiser and I believe that Christianity in
this country is as he himself said anti art.</span></span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">
Canal Bank Walk</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pouring wonder for me, grow with nature again as before I grew.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">birds gathering materials for the nest for the Word</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">As Patrick Kavanagh said the self is only good as an
illustration: Wow what an illustration, all I have done is take away two lines
and without going to deep into the heart and the meaning of the poem I believe
it to be a better poem without the word god.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">In the supermarket window.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Everything is doubled or</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Trebled in this xmas mayhem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why?</span></span></span></div>
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TEARS OF YEARS</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Years of tears</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In tears of years</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">moving stagnant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This poem is be-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">coming a contra-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">diction in terms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I hear the traffic</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">flowing like </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">a river to the sea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Life is doing all</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The ele-mental</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Fun-demental</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Things but is</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It moving me?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> of un-hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The two most poetic words ever</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">That sum up the history of man-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Its like the charge of positive</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And negative, the balance of the uni-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Terrible, the kind of love that’s true.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">GRAVEYARD
THISTLES</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I believe that the power of art and the love of
my children dragged me from the clutches of death six years ago; that and my
faith in humanity. Poetry has such a hold on my life that I woke trying to fit
my new mute self into a poem. I believe I saw something in intensive
care when I fell into a coma: not the inner light of sentimentality, but the
inner dark of reality. A duende/ negative capability, a way of dealing
with the horrors of life. Only when we dig right down into the darkness do we
find a black light, like that of the negative capability John Keats
saw, a poet’s inner loneliness. A way of accepting my new life, giving me
a way of living with the wheelchair, the bed rail and the monkey-pole, and now
they are just items of life. Just as Keats when he felt the negative
capability; even in the grip of death
he found that ounce of wonder. At that moment, just as your lights are about to
go, there’s this mighty surge of wonder that makes you write another word, it
has driven me to wake everyday and write. That has been my purpose for six
years now. Whether it be good or bad, it doesn’t matter: that is beyond me. All
i know is that it flows like blood and gives me the strength to rise above the
negativity and find another word for another day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Raymond
Carver said that in fires, influences are forces: circumstances, personalities,
irresistible as the tide. Louis McNiece once said poets don’t know what they
are doing: if they did, it wouldn’t be done. So this essay is taking its own
course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Poetry
for me holds a deep sense of strength and it has always been there, like a
bouquet, pulling me through the darkest days. It was there when my father
and my sister died and I dealt with their grief in the lines of a poem. It was there
when I took my stroke and lay on a hospital bed only able to move my
eyes. Without poetry I wouldn’t have come through those dark lonely
days. I have read umpteen essays on the power of poetry, always asking
the question, does it change lives? Well, I can say that it has changed mine. I
grew up in a working class family and poetry was never exercised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
only books I read were of Michael Collins, or the secret army, or Hollywood;
poetry was a bad word. No one in my family wrote poetry, so when I began
my friends and family said I was mad and my friends nearly all disappeared and
thought I was out to steal their words. I was always digging, looking for a
source to spring and shower me in wonder. I never liked the work place, having
been a butcher boy, a metal polisher, a bin man and an electronics engineer;
just a few of the hundreds of jobs I’ve had. Before I left school at
fifteen with a basic education-poetry was like the word fuck you felt it but
didn’t say it in this moralistic sentimental world. I remember one teacher, a
Mr O’Donohue: when he read poetry or stories they came alive, and I was
captured in the words. All my mates were messing at the back of the class and I
would usually be in the middle of them, but when he mouthed literature, It was
as if I fell into a trance. I just wanted to leave school and get out in the
world and earn my own money; so on my travels through the streets of London and
Dublin I always scribbled down things I saw, trying to piece them together for
a good lyric for a song, being as I was heavily influenced by the words from
the streets as David Bowie and Lou Reed were, using that language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
remember a friend lending me ‘Fires’ by Raymond Carver: I read the poem for
Karl Walenda and it blew me away. I have since read and re-read that book: his
words held me to that tightrope, it tailed me all over Magdeburg in Vienna and
Prague. The poem’s wind was holding me up, it was under my skin south towards
Puerto Rico and the torrid zone, and just beyond the Caribbean. I had to shake
myself free of its hold. From that day on, poetry captured my dreams and
coloured my day. I began to have confidence in the words I wrote, toying
with the idea of putting words together. I was unemployed at the time and
having a hard time with a young family, trying to be the breadwinner and do my
own thing. I got my family back to the magic shores of Ireland. I'm English but
even I knew that Ireland was better for my children than mad capitalist
England. I said to my wife that I wasn’t going to work: that I wanted to be a
writer. I may as well have said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or an astronaut;
writers were from another planet. Those words of Raymond Carver were like my
own language, it was as if he told me I could do this. I built a desk
from an old door in the box room and I created my haven, a little office where
I could lose myself in the written word. I told my wife it would take two
years: it took me six to get my first thing published, but in that time I was
reading W.B. Yates and Kavanagh, Dostoyevsky, Hubert Selby, Robert Lowell,
Elisabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Patrick lane, Ted Hughes, Liam O’Flaherty,
Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor. I immersed myself in words. For
ten years I wrote and re-wrote and read and reread, piecing together snippets
of thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">One
day I got a brochure on the Poet’s House in Port Muck, a poetry retreat. I sent
them three poems and I was accepted. It was magic: two weeks of poetry
and poets by the sea. I got stuck in and loved the people I met. I
workshopped my poems with Medbh McGuckian and Simon Armitage, Jimmy and Janice
Simmons and Martin Mooney, my heroes. It was like everything was
released in those two weeks, with the freedom to talk about poetry; outside in
the real world, it was like talking about something taboo. There was only
certain people who didn’t think you were nuts. Before I left that magic place,
Jimmy and Janice Simmons invited me to apply for a Masters Degree. I didn’t
even have an GCSE or an O Level, but Jimmy said you’ve got three weeks: write
me a piece on your thoughts of poetry, and send me ten poems and I’ll send them
to Lancaster university. I drove home from Port Muck and every turn of the
wheel was the thought of me doing a Masters. Every twist and turn was
speaking of reality and the surreal demons inside me, back and forward, mirror,
signal, manoeuvre. Eventually I sat down after talking to my wife and
said that I had to take this opportunity. I wrote the essay and tidied up
ten poems and sent them off thinking that I would not get a reply and drifted
back into reality. Jimmy sent the work to Lancaster: they were passed
around a group of outside examiners and on the merits of my work I was awarded
a scholarship to do a Masters. I knew then that the puzzle was being pieced
together. The Poet’s House was moving from Port Muck to Donegal, so this
was a new beginning for them and a new beginning for me. I had this
jumbled page of writing called ‘The Light on the Stones’, about my father’s
death, a death that impacted my life so much, and since then through that poem
I have always believed that there is something beautiful in death. It was as if
my father spoke to me, and my new father of poetry and literature showed me a
way of dealing with the hardships of life. If I said this outside of poetry,
you’d think he’s away with the fairies, but I believe that we should be taught
more positively about death because there is something magic about it.
Jimmy Simmons sat me down at the computer and arranged my words into a poem;
ever since that day I have edited poems that way that Jimmy taught me. Jimmy
died a few years later but I’ll never forget him, and every time I’m working on
a poem his image enters my mind. I got the Masters, not that it means
very much: I don’t hold much sway for a piece of paper on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">But
since then, I’ve worked teaching creative writing to children and adult groups
all over the country, and have met some magic people. I have four collections
of poetry, and have been published by Poetry Ireland, The Honest Ulsterman,
Fortnight Magazine, The Black Mountain Review, Lapwing, and Lagan Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
retrace your final journey now in a blue car,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Not
black, alone on the motorway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Passing
the Maze prison, the stench of my engine</span></div>
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is like gunpowder, spent shells,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Lingering,
your dream of Irish freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
climbed the mountain graveyard </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Above
the violent, divided city,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Above
the peace line that stood between us</span></div>
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the living room. It was a maze</span></div>
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kept graves, lawns, wreaths, flowers,</span></div>
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on glistening headstones.</span></div>
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plot, all weeds</span></div>
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wild grass, cries out for order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
fallen wooden cross bears no name;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">But
you are there. Like a sculptor</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">With
clay I reach inwards, my hands</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">As
delicate as salmon wings riding</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
white water, struggling </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
strong currents of grief.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
brush the soiled tears from your eyes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
you awake in me, swimming</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
glistening in mine. My hands</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Shape
the clay moulding our wounded past,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Emerging
in the light on the stones.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">SILKEN</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">A
single rose emerges</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">Plants
its indelible mark</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">on
the corner of my eye.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">I
want to cut you off</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">Place
you on the surface </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">of
my dreams, caress your stem</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">and
smell the fragrance</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Bell MT";">that
secretes. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">I
have </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">you </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Bell MT';">here</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">on
the bed, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">extracting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">leaves
marked </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">like
freckles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">on
your back. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">Your
quint-</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">essential </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">silk </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Bell MT';">on
my lips.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">Drop-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">lets</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">of
summer </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">rain
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">fall
from</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Bell MT";">The
petals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
place you in a glass on my window-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sill.
The young thorn pricks my finger: inserts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Beneath
the skin, reminding me how to hold </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">you
honestly, tenderly. I know your vibrant </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">colour
won’t last but beside it on the stem </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">is
another bud to bloom.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BAY A</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
tree</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
the mirror</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">By
the pebble-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Dashed
wall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Looks
cold</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Dark
naked</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">and
alone.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">OFF THE ROAD</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">‘a
meloncholic smile’</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">-Tindersticks</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
do not want to face the realisation of my condition:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">unable
to walk, talk, paralysed down right side,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">but
seeing my grandson made me reflect. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Like
an adult born into a child, the mind forms</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">into
something that can grasp language.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">That’s
the way I felt in intensive care when I woke </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">from
my stroke, trying to grasp the language of words;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It
feels like I’m compelled to write down these feelings </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
loneliness and silence as if I have to make sense of this</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">scientific
term, locked-in syndrome. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">They
talk about the power of words but these words really </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">and
truly saved my life. It seems as if I’m turning muck </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">into
gold. Without god or some spiritual entity </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I’m
creating a positive force through art as if</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">my
life depended upon it. A beatnik </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">in
this beaten world, this is my new city blues,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">my
road trip a cul-de-sac of poems. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">KILBRONEY</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
cacophony of dawn </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Sang
from the forest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
stirred us awake.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
sounds echoed a wild-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Life
programme as if deep</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
the Amazon, exotic </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Creatures
exclaiming dawn.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">We
lay together in the tent </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">surrounded
by nature,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">caressing
every sense </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">erogenously.</span><br />
<br />
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<br />
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ODE TO KEATS</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My
heart aches a numb and lonely pain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">As
though a sad elixir were shot through.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
pale faced melancholy evaporating </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">rivers
of sentimentality.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
winged leaves of nature</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Sing
the notes of spring, summer,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">autumn
and winter.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It’s
as if at birth I was given a dose </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Of
negative capability even in this death</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Of
life my poetic mind is tinged with a glimmer.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Flying
in this moment on wheelchaired chariots.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
feel the flowers at my feet and the rains upon </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">my
brow embalmed in un-adopted darkness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">within
darkness within this waking dream. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">THE OTHER COUNTRY</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>For Carol Ann Duffy</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
other country is:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
silhouetted hill by a lake in a night sky, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
shape of a naked woman from </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">your
dreams.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
woke up sleeping on a steering wheel, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">VW
imprinted on my forehead.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
drove north and detoured left, always left, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">around
a lake and started back where </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
began in dreams.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
star in the western sky flickered </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">above
my manger. Reading Keats, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">‘O
Solitude!’, and your touchable dreams.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It
seems as if Keats saw 9/11 </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">in
the first three lines of his poem.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">As
if nothing has changed </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">in
the poetic span of time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
dwell in murky buildings but </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">my
soul, it is free. In here, I see </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
wonder that is really the blue me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">NORTH WEST PASSAGE</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h3>
I.M of Michael Hartnett</h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Rise little blackbird</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">To the top of the tree</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Your song is witness</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">To pain and joy.<i> </i></span><b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
sky was like a Turner painting:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
dusky pink hue, hanging melancholy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I’m
planning to drive to Donegal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
listen to the Lambchop CD,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">This
music still drifts me in and out</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Of
reality. Driving down the motor-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Way
behind a horse box as if</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
horse’s head came from a painting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Into
my imagination, galloping bareback</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Through
the Bann and the Blackwater.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Below
a bridge where children wave</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Across
the Sperrins, past the raised ruins</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
the razed to the ground ruins of history</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">On
the North West Passage, through the Fairy </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Water
into another world embroidered </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
memory, thatched in time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">INCANTATION</span></h2>
<h3>
For Seamus</h3>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My
brother took me over two boxes of books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
rifled through a past I thought was forgotten:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Old
poems, Dostoyevsky, Kavanagh, Kerouac,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">notebooks
and old diaries.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">This
was my past before the stroke,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
one that was like a dream.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It’s
funny how I don’t remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
flicking through these, I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Like
an old man rediscovering</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Or
a child with a time-travelling toy.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">With
a box folder of poems written by me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">But
the overall sense of them seem to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Written
by someone else.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">‘<i>You
dabble in verse and it becomes your life’</i>,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">then
one day you take a stroke that almost</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">stops
your life and your poems seem </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to
be written in your younger brother’s hand.</span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BARCODE OF LIGHT</span></h2>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
sun shoots in, then blinks behind cloud:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
day begins like summer mornings do.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
don’t know where this poem is coming from:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
reservoir of survival, a spiritual source?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">No
one knows; I just know its magic.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It
gives me a purpose, and just as I say purpose</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
sun pierces my sight and the world,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
light shines on my wheelchair </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
it becomes my throne.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
am the king of this un-adopted castle.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Nature
throws its light and I label it Buddhist, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Christian
or Pagan. You can see why civilisations </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Have
worshipped it, It has the power of an Adidas top </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Or
a 60-inch Plasma screen or an iPod but</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">This
trademark is free.</span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BIRTH WATER</span></h2>
<h3>
For Gillian</h3>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My
brother and I kicked</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
five-gallon drum along</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
Castleblaney road.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Skimmed
the birth water</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
dipped into the wells.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Pure
clarity.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Like
Pele or George best</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Kicking
a can along the road.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Returning
like an African tribal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Woman.
Memory isn’t skin-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Toned:
it’s a blur of reality.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BILLOWING</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
woke and everything was fuzzy,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Pasteled
in sleep. Every move</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
made was a burst of colour.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Beyond
the mist, the dew, my window, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
world seemed cast in a spell of silence.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
looked out on a lovely, lonely landscape:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It
was as if the world was made up of just me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
the artist Edward Hopper;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">This
was my Mid West.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Suddenly
the world was animated</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">By
the sound of a car going by</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Then
everything became fragmented,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Abstract,
cubist, surreal.</span><br />
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">William
Stafford said:</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">'I don’t want to write good poems. I want to write </span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">inevitable poems.'</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></b></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">CRUDE OIL</span></h2>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">This
is the gateway </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to
darkness within:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">darkness,
my translated </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">truth,
a trip through limbo.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
well can't ever be</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">used
up; the clarity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
poetry and this black</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">hole
theory has been cut </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">through
me. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BLUR ON A WINDOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
NIGHT</span></h2>
<h3>
For C.D. Wright</h3>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">That
image is drifting away already;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">An
image coming out of an image.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
man standing against the body of a man.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Will
my sons ever see the sepia-tones of my past?</span><b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Will
they hold an ebony and ivory walking stick,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Stumbling
between this world and that</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
an old abandoned cottage?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
took my five-a-day today, tablets.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My
day begins in silence and poetry and ends</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
silence and poetry.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">An
image within an image.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
go to my hide, my will to power.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Turning
another days muck into gold:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
blurred memory from childhood stumbling across a main road</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">With
my eyes closed to see what it's like in the dark.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">SOJOURN</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
drug dispenser lays open</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Holding
open a book of poetry.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Carver
books and Nietzsche books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Are
piled by philosophy and gloves.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">John
Keats is there, open and soiled,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Held
open by the knife and fork.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Beside
the boxes of tablets, the blister</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Packs
that balance me each day.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It’s
like a chemist shop or an alchemist’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Shelf.
I’m flaking away here, leaving behind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
trail of poetry and dried skin. This is why</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
sojourn here, alone and palely loitering,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Just
up the road from the balancing lakes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">TYPEWRITER</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It feels like 1971 or 1981 with-</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Out a network connection:</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">An internment, a Facebook with-</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Out a face. It seems like we’re</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Going back to paper, pen, and grey grime.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The blank, black screens of my lap-</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Top and iPod are like relics: old</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Broken screens on a mound of</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Debris. It feels like I’m hoking</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The bins of today searching for</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Tomorrow.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In thirty years we have only ad-</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Vanced to a dump. The laptop</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Begins to breathe, reboot,</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Then dies. My room resembles</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A second hand or pawnshop</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In a flea market.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The black screens just look at me</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Blankly, the cold sets in and I go</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And put the heating on. At least</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The boiler bypasses the cold.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">So much for the G-force, my skin</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Wrinkles the ageing process, so much</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">For the giant leap for mankind.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Looks like we’re going back to the old type-</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Writer with ebony and ivory keys</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And a ribbon to write my heart of darkness.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">THE BLACK PATHS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> <br />
<br />
I follow the black paths to beauty, past <br />
graffiti and new-city grime. It’s as if <br />
I’ve been put in this wheelchair to sit <br />
and scrutinise each stone. My words <br />
were written in conviction, even graf-<br />
feet-tied on mobile phones. I see him<br />
on every fence, on the floor, engrained <br />
on the handle’s door. Carver, Kavanagh, <br />
Keats and all the masters of words are here <br />
as a pillion of poets wheeling these words <br />
into my home. As the man of the moment, Keats, said:<br />
‘What the imagination seizes as beauty is truth’. <br />
I’m digging the debris for my truth; he is watching <br />
in nature’s stare; this poem almost shapes his face.</span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">BUS STOP</span></h2>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">You
who wrote on water </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">We
have come full circle</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">From
Keats’s waking dream.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Far
beyond romantic’s revolutions,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Punk
and new romantics.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">We
have been through sentimental</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Fairytales
and it’s time to jump off.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Let
the bus pass the stop that says</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">'slave
morality' ,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> jump off into the
un-</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Known,
go round and round the roundabout,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Through
the country the cities and towns,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">get
off at the balancing lakes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">REFLECTING DEATH</span></h2>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
waves</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Swim</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
eyes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">To
shadow-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Light.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">CONSCRIBED</span></h2>
<h3>
In Memory of John Hewitt</h3>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
drove down the Bluestone road</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Sat
by my sisters grave, waiting </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">for
grief to rise. Poetry comes </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">from
down inside there:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">it’s
like trying to make sense</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
nothing and make it flow</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">on
the page.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Sitting
here beside a river</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">watching
memory meander</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">and
surface there in the current</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to
wave hello, goodbye.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">So
rest there Stephanie, and sleep </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">memory
awake.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
am here at home in this </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">moment
NOW. These </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">streets
are my glens.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">These
valleys are my cathedrals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
conscribe this poem, having </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">breakfast
of toast, tea and tablets </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">by
an un-stained window; </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">exiled
by the space beyond</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">that
blue door.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4>
DUENDE</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"><br />
<i>‘Only mystery enables us to live.’<br />
Fredrico Garcia Lorca</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I was baptised in dark
water.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I saw my reflection in a
puddle.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I put my foot in it, splashed
my skin. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My poems are my thought
fox. Some-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">thing else is alive.<br />
<br />
There’s an unfathomable presence<br />
rising and falling, a heavenly hell.<br />
I’ve got Raymond Carver’s, ‘ What<br />
The Doctor Said’ and ‘The Gift’ by<br />
Cheslaw Milosz in the same book,<br />
‘A New Path o the Waterfall’.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> ‘Here it is; I hold my hand towards you, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">warm and capable of<br />
honest grasping.’ </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It
doesn’t matter if you are armed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">with
Emerson’s white fire or Lorca’s black -</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sound,
Plath’s celestial being or Ted Hughes’s</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">winged
crow. This is not to invoke duende </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">but
to form a spiritual chain. </span><br />
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<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">MAHAMUDRA</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">for
Kenneth White</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">‘<i>When
the mind finds no place</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to
stop, there’s Mahamudra</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">.’</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Mahamudrapadesha</span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
opened the door to let a fly free</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">but
another one came in. </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">The
vast-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">ness of grey sky, </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">the
old tree con-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">tours the wind, </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">the
stump rooted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">among wild, wild, </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">wild
grass </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">and thistles as high as a man.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Just
off the diamond path that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">leads to my house, </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">my
un-adopted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">kingdom; the wheelchair slope </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">is marked </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">like
leaf mould, fossils </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">of the past drifting back from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">nurtured soil. </span><span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">The
wind picks up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">the cars go by and nothing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT';">has to happen.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ALCOHOL</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Pierced
by death, you kill time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">You
drive through the minutes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And
the seconds of these lonely</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Moments
that last forever.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">You
see the summer sun reflect</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Like
diamonds on the waters</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Of
your mind, all that belongs </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
this moment framed:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">By
the earth, Lough Neagh, the sky;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Alcohol
and its problems are beyond this.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">CROAGHAN HIDE</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A
rectangle of life looks like </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">nothing
is happening but </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
branch trembles the reeds </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sway,
the water’s shore,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
shore I breathe.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">HOLLYWOOD
AND THE I.R.A.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">You
wouldn’t think that once</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
was a young published poet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Able-bodied,
in love with life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
only books in my house</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Were
of Hollywood and the I.R.A.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Errol
Flynn and Michael Collins</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Guru-ed
my life; I swash-buckled</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Love
in the clothes of war and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Even
married a girl called Kitty.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A FENCED IN POEM</span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Digging
for a soul</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Without
god</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In
this wild existential</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I
step away from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">a
sentimental path</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">and
find light in dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">a
truth in my truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The
wind blows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Everything
east</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the
world looks like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">a
Donegal landscape.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">WHAT
PATRICK KAVANAGH SAW</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">(or a disused house in county Louth)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Just up Duffy’s lane, over the fields towards
Mucker,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Kavanagh land, just a mile from Hack-</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Balls-cross, through his poplars,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Over his wooden gate and I was lost</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In an old abandoned cottage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It was as if the people had just walked out the
door, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Like a film set of Patrick Kavanagh’s Catholic
Ireland.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Lost in a world of sacred hearts, blood from
thorns</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And sepia-toned pictures of Jesus. Bloody icons</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Littered every step I took. It seems as
if I had walked</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Into his poems in memory of his mother and
father.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I didn’t even know what a poem was then;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">All I knew was he had the jack of a car</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And I had the branch of a tree </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And we were out on manoeuvres, playing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I picked up an ebony and ivory walking stick</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">That I was going to use as a gun. ‘Don’t.’ said</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">My brother who was two years older and wiser,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">‘</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">That’s the devils
plaything.’ After all, he was a smart guy:</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He could count to ten in German and watch</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Match of the day at the same time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I threw it away as if the plague was carved
into it, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I went upstairs, looked out the window</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And saw what Kavanagh saw. I considered </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The grass growing, growing cool about my ankles
on a July day,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Running home through the fields with my brother</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">And a one-eyed, three-legged dog. </span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">KNOWING THE UNKNOWN</span></h2>
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<h3>
I.M. Wallace Stevens</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Deep
in the depths of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">irrationality,
I’m being rational:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">creating
accidentally on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">purpose
poems like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">a
pre-meditated dawn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">a
disabled reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Literature
is my desire </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to
live in this able-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">bodied
world.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">I’ve
been down the road </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
suicide poetry, stood </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">on
the ledge of my soul,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">looked
down at the river </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
poetry but couldn’t jump;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">so
I reign here with a blind brow.</span></div>
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<h2>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">THE OTHER
HALF OF EVERYTHING</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">woke in
a tiny bed-sit, a picture of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">son's face falling
away from </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">eyes like a rainbow drifting
into the filthy walls. In a state of confusion </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">clambered into </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">clothes along the three
flights of stairs </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">managed to manouvere
</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">in massive strides, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">standing on the cat
that scared </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">him half to death </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">and </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">jolted him </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">closer to the front door. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> T</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he fear of what that hologram of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">son meant drifted through his mind. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The Queen </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">L</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">iz</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">zy </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">was quiet for a
change: the drunks and junkies were asleep or still locked up in the cells
after the dawn raid. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ran to the end
of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the street </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">where the kebab van
parks and sat on the wall, awaiting the girl to exit the phone booth. For
fuck’s sake, hurry up, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">told her silently,
his motives losing momentum</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">. He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">turned to the street
and watched the creeds of the world clamber along; among them the lost and the
lonely released into the community, the mad ones, the real people. An old lady
with a white painted face shoved a shopping trolley along the middle of the
road, the rush hour traffic swerving to miss her. Elvis in a sequined waistcoat
posing for a shout singing ‘Love Me Tender’ across the street. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">A man in a long black coat
who never speaks to anyone, justs walks around with a scrunched up ball of
paper in his hand, wiping crayons taken from his breast pocket across the page.
He met him once in the Irish cafe and like a tourist he bought him a cup of tea
and asked could he have a look. Without a sound and half a smile, he handed him
his sketchpad while another appeared instantly from within his coat, and he
began drawing the scene outside the window.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Only he could see what the
man was drawing, whose back was to the view. He watched him draw half a man, half
a car and half a street, like the aftermath of a blitz. “The other ones, with
crayons”, he said, and he took a ball of paper from his pocket and rolled it
across to him on the artificial marble, Formica-topped table. As he unfolded
the ball of paper, Monets, Lillies, Van Gogh’s trees and Vermeer's light filled
his eyes. He looked at him and saw in his eyes the other half of everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">rushed past the girl and shoved the coins in the slot,
his heart beating wildly like electronic codes gathering in </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">head; a dead tone. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">took
the rejected coins and shoved them home again and again, only to hear the same
dead tones ringing like a thumping headache; she must have changed the number, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">thought as </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">returned to </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">little room. Feeling caged like an animal, trying so hard
to concentrate on a book that it only brought confusion. Unable to erase the
sight of the picture of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">son appearing like
that </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">hologram and </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">the worrying
thoughts attached to it. Your conscience is the prison of the mind; no matter how
hard you try you just can't out run it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Oh how he wished at that
moment that he was one of the dispossessed shuffling through life, oblivious of
any moral obligations. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">thought of his
father trying to run all his life from his bastard past, each one of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">five siblings </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">born in a different town and
staying no longer than a year in each; Belfast during the 60s and 70s being the
longest they stayed. There was probably one of the safest places in the
world for him: what past would want to find you in </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Belfast </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">during the nightmare of the troubles? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">When he gave up running from
his past a secret family exploded after thirty-one years of marriage. It
showered down on the family like emotional shrapnel, sending the family to the
four winds to lick their wounds,</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> k</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">illing father
and devastating his mother with three strokes. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">always swore </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">would never be like
him, yet here </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he was </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">in a fucked up town
in England while everything was across the Irish Sea. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">discarded the book with a vengeance into the corner of the
room, took </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his only </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">coat from the only
chair and left the still madness to join the frantic streets.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">It was a warm summer's
evening, which didn't help much as the town's grim sights clashed with the
elements and </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">void. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">called at the Asian shop and purchased a bottle of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">o</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">verpriced wine (uncorked), without a care for paying over
the odds, anything to surpress </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">inner lament and to
awaken </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">mind to simpler things. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">walked south of the town, intent on not opening the wine
until </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">reached </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">destination. Beneath a filthy old railway bridge </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">uncorked the wine and took a deep swig, while in </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">mind </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">told the roaring
train thundering overhead to fuck off. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">passed
the roundabout where the cars waited impatiently for their little piece of space,
in a mad hurry to get nowhere.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Dusk fell on reaching </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">destination, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">space
by the river</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">. He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">went there often to
clear </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">head of the modern filth. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sat by the river edge smoking and chugging the wine; a
slight warm breeze blew with the riverflow, creating short sharp waves that
gleamed with the red dye-injected sky. A treat for </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">eyes after the usual week of air-conditioned factories,
traffic jams, and everywhere the sight of built-up grey areas filled with
drunks, junkies and perverts, clambering the streets in search of some
temporary nirvana. That vexed feeling came fleeting back at the sight of a
riverboat pumping along unnaturally like filth on the river; its cheap coloured
lights flashing and cutting the reflection of the line of trees from the far
bank like a chainsaw. Idling towards the boat were a train of swans: at their
point was a beautiful white bird followed by four black cygnets; guarding the
rear was the majestic male. Pleasantly they blended with the scenery,
belonging.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The bright lights of the
boat’s exterior and the lights within clashed, creating silhouette shapes from
within that pranced around, out of sync with the nightclub thumping beats.
Man’s celebration driving like a nightmare on the surpassing river. He recalled
a night he was on board that very boat, The Princess: a cruise, or so he
thought. One of the girls in work arranged it. He pictured the scene, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">r</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">elaxing on the starboard bow with a beer, mellowing with
the sights and the natural flow of nature passing by. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">Most of the people </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">worked with were assholes. Their form of chilling out
after work was to be glued to the box in the corner that pumped garbage into
their minute recesses. He was excommunicated: he's an odd-ball, they said,
because he couldn't make a comment on the latest goings on in the soap operas,
or who scored the vital goal in the football, or give his opinion on the
lunatic on the news that murdered twenty-seven men and women and ate their
genitals</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> He liked poetry and
literature. T</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">hey can keep their electrified dementia; he'll stay quietly insane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">got a beer and left the swarm of people within. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sat on the deck ready for the world's natural flow. The
disco beat pumped decibels of thumping sounds through the hull, echoing tremors
through the river’s capacity. It's no wonder it's a good river for fishing:
they want to be caught and have their necks smashed on the nearest rock. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">was so pissed off </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">wanted
to catch a hook, pull back on it, and be hauled to freedom. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">was starving, wanted to hear classical music and let </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">mind wonder off to take it in, then pour this experience
out on paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">tried </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">best to relax and
push those stupid sounds away. Just when </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">thought
</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">had it sorted, one of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">fellow workers broke </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">concentration to talk shop. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">had
riverboat sickness; leaving the deck, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">returned
to the madness and sat with </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">fellow used, as the
pretence of beer and whisky flowed. The booze took its toll and </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">was no longer in control, letting it flow with the filth
of the boat on the river. As the train of swans met the boat, two silhouette
shapes stood on the deck, drinking from glasses that flashed in the moonlight,
pouring their substance from the glasses down on the flock, their strict
security broke in shock. He yelled at the shapes, you think it's fucking funny,
ya mindless wankers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">In his rage he didn't notice
the swan swimming towards him, bolting onto the bank, honking and hissing,
wildly flapping its outstr</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">e</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">tched wings. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">stumbled back and ran for cover behind the trees with the
echoes of laughter from the boat. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">zigzagged
through the line of trees, and by the time </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">reached the river edge again, after finishing the wine, it seemed the moon
and stars were out for </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">benefit only.
Mellowing in solitude, pondering </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">circumstance,
watching the shadows from the far shore rippling a picture for the album of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">mind, until something caught </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">eye. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He t</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">urned to see the
swans silently coming along the river edge. He was about to get up and run when
he told himself stall, relax. His heart beat wildly and shook with fear like
the flowing river when the majestic bird broke the water with great ease onto
the bank and idled towards </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">The massive bird came
strolling along the grass verge.</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> F</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">or a second he made
eye contact before </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">lowered </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">head, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">closed
his eyes and </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">braced </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">self. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">felt the strength of its breast as it pressed against </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">him</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">. Its cold beak brushed </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">forehead and flowed to the nape of </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">neck
with the affection of a lover’s touch, and a sensation flowed through </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">mind and body; a new sensation, something </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">had </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">only come
close to </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">experienc</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ing when seeing his
children </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">be</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ing born. It cleared his
mind </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">of
every trivial thought </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ever had. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">He opened his eyes</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">, left the river and
returned to the town, got</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> his </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">gear together from
the corner of the filthy room and left. On the train</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">thought maybe I should leave her alone, maybe they’re
better off without me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">On the boat crossing the
rough Irish Sea, political parties condemned murder in the TV lounge</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">As </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sipped a pint of
Guinness</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">it was winter in Northern
Ireland. All thing</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">s </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">were dying, the rain
and the sea spray cut with the coldness of steel; but </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">h</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">e</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ld in </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">his hands a </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">picture of his </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">sons. R</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">eality </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">was
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">pulsing
with a rhythm </span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">he </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">never want</span><span style="font-family: "Bell MT";">ed </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">to</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bell MT";">lose.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">THE ORPHIC SONNETS/PRAYERS</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘not
till here and beyond</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>voices are rendered lasting</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
pure’</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rilke </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HEART-SPACE </span></h1>
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1.</div>
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These poems go out to my ethereal family</div>
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the pure strong ones, the ones who keep me</div>
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pure and strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Learning to say</div>
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what I cannot say.</div>
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Cars drive over my dreams things enter me</div>
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Deeply and find a shallow form, always</div>
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Going back to the beginning back to</div>
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The word.</div>
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I see death and destruction, oh mother</div>
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Of the word, earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know love</div>
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Is the only answer but how </div>
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Can I grasp love when<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> </div>
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The system that gives</div>
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Life does not allow</div>
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Me love.</div>
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2.</div>
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to saturns blessed queen, Reah</div>
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hear my horrid howlings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mother</div>
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of my uni-verse, liberating muse.</div>
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My words are flowing from images</div>
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But what are they doing?</div>
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I found my purpose, the word now</div>
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I must find the form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh thunderous </div>
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Jove please echo my words around </div>
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your lofty heights and atherial blaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Send them through your divine power, </div>
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through shrouds of dark fluid cloud.</div>
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O Jove hurl them with your strong arm</div>
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Around the tops of mountains.</div>
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3.</div>
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I call on you</div>
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The mighty</div>
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Splendid light.</div>
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Aerial, dreadful</div>
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Sounding flaming</div>
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Light.</div>
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All parent great</div>
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And strong, parents</div>
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Of prolific rains</div>
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Wash me in watery</div>
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Frames and dry me</div>
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In airs wide bosom</div>
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Through stormy</div>
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Sounding gales.</div>
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4.</div>
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to reveal my crown of wishes</div>
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royal health and gentle peace</div>
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to be my constant guide.</div>
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I call on mother earth</div>
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that fruitful showers </div>
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fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I call on you</div>
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the sea with pools</div>
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of bright light.</div>
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Empress of deep gentle gales</div>
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Sweep my rocky shores</div>
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Veiled in cold transparency</div>
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and fountains pure</div>
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waft me over </div>
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stormy shores.</div>
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5.</div>
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to Nereus;</div>
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the demon of the deep</div>
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the dark foundations of my sleep.</div>
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the earths bounty, the earths un-</div>
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shake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the
daughters of the deep</div>
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wild leaping in liquid sea</div>
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the beauty of sacrafice delight</div>
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to almost drown</div>
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in pools of light</div>
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to live each day </div>
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in ponds of sight</div>
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send words of right</div>
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on mystic rites.</div>
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6.</div>
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to you who holds the key</div>
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of chambers weep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let me</div>
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light my way to the end.</div>
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The source of fertile earth</div>
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The all destroying force.</div>
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Fruits of dark</div>
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Endless root</div>
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Give to take my souls de-</div>
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Light, accept the darkness</div>
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Of my sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Draw
near</div>
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To my prayer.</div>
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7.</div>
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oh ruler of mankind</div>
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listen, listen to my words</div>
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the deep is dark.</div>
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My weapon is</div>
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my only tongue.</div>
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Open up take me in</div>
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Infernal queen.</div>
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Let me lick the realms</div>
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And whisper words</div>
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Of love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some things</div>
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Are best</div>
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Unsaid.</div>
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8.</div>
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There are half truths buried in life</div>
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Lets be sure to be unsure.</div>
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The eyes sees what</div>
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The mouth cannot say,</div>
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Everybody has a truth-their truth.</div>
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I seen it but the stroke blurred</div>
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My vision, how can I</div>
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Say what I see.</div>
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Did I see that man pass</div>
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That window and leave</div>
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His mark on you?</div>
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Rilke you gave me this title</div>
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And you gave me your truth</div>
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In the meaningful word</div>
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In-clan-nation.</div>
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9.</div>
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I hear</div>
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The pure</div>
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Stuff</div>
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Trickle</div>
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Down</div>
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A drain.</div>
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Meandering</div>
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Memory</div>
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<br /></div>
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Tumbling in-</div>
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To a tumbler</div>
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After</div>
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A down</div>
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Pour.</div>
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10.</div>
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<b>THISTLE-</b></h1>
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<b>DOWN</b></h1>
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The weed thistle-</div>
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Down reaches </div>
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beyond me and my</div>
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height before this.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It overlooks the fence</div>
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Looking up and out</div>
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At life looking back at me.</div>
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I can only grasp</div>
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The limits of life</div>
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In its milk thistle.</div>
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The leaves dance</div>
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A poetic rhythm</div>
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Rising and falling</div>
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In the rain.</div>
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<i>REMEMBER HUMANITY</i></div>
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