tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80123401269918158592024-03-13T10:14:08.522+00:00Yes it's TOTALFECKINEEJIT40 shades of shite.Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-7020057321643459722020-08-13T22:53:00.004+01:002020-08-13T22:53:50.010+01:00<p> Booze News and Book Reviews, come on in!<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wphy4Dw4Bw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wphy4Dw4Bw</a></p>Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-55000966557500080942020-04-02T22:46:00.001+01:002020-04-02T22:46:58.069+01:00<br />
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Hope you are keeping well, staying safe. I wish you all well, lovers, likers, lurkers, even the haters.</div>
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Now, listen, come here to me. In the family home, the original one in Offaly, before some of the family had to flee at gunpoint to the North (Dad's dad, a peasant, got the local farmer's daughter, a schoolteacher no less,pregnant out of wedlock) and then, child born, return to as near to home as possible, Tipperary, the next chapter.</div>
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But going back to the Offaly contingent, my Uncle John, had a clock (with a beautiful bluebird on the sweeping hand) that in later years (my time) would only work if kept face down on the red formica top of the oblong kitchen table. How this was discovered, I don't know. I guess when you cannot afford to replace things, you keep trying 'til you find a way.</div>
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And now it is old and worn, like Uncle John's clock.<br />It fell, got dented. The CD player would not work, the digital display declared the lid open, even though it was closed. I leaned on it and it worked, but as soon as I moved, it stopped, displayed 'open'.</div>
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I love that Marx is the top of the pile. It could have been Trump, or Boris, or Blair, it could have been Leo.</div>
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Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-58616355890680097092020-03-07T22:47:00.000+00:002020-03-07T22:49:44.234+00:00How long since the last post?!
Time to get back in the saddle, yahoooo!
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To All The Proselytising Pouters.
We hear ya.
We also see ya.
And this, as we are simple folk,
leads to some confusion.
Self, selfish, selfie.
Cause, caws, effect.
Aren't you gorgeous as you pout,
and all the worthy things you spout,
hat on, gloss on, right on,
lovely woman, lovely man,
doing all the things you can,
for racism,sexism,starvation,
homelessness, if not gormlessness,
in your poutiessness.
Ah, we love you,
(not as much as you love yourself)
and we love your friends,
(not quite as much as they love you)
symbiotic amniotic fluid
gives birth to all your dreams,
your circles as tight,
as a sick duck's arse.
Oh, your stellar skies,
as in the IT you explain
the whys and wherefores
of literary bores, you lovely man,
you courageous woman,
where would we be
without your words,
sublime guidance,
like missiles over borders,
you are the main courses
and the whore d'oeuvres.
Mwah! WE LOVE YOU!Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-29146265980935622672017-10-18T00:10:00.000+01:002017-10-18T00:10:01.809+01:00There we are walking along the post-storm streets of Dublin,the streets my mother walked years before, I light a candle with thought, without belief, in St Theresa's, Clarendon Street.
A candle for her and all those gone before us marked (some would say scarred) with the sign of faith.Our loved ones.
Out again, there's a coolness in the air, a calmness, a warmth in the sky and I think out of that/the blue, 'Lapus Lazuli.'
I say it out loud, Lapis Lazuli, It feels like two nice marbles rolling an alliterating joy in my mouth up to my brain. I'm not 100% sure what exactly it is, a precious/semi precious gemstone? A title for a new poetry magazine? I know nothing of the double L.
We wander in to The National Library, I like the carved wooden breasts on the fireplace, perhaps you are not supposed to touch, but I do, then we wander down to the Yeats exhibition and there out of another blue, a lump, a block, a real piece of 'Lapus Lazuli' in all it's glory.
New to me, spookily co-incidental in a darkened room touching on Yeats' fascination with the occult. Then I learn something.
A tour guide explains that the Yeats family wanted a quiet funeral for Willy, but his fame would not allow it, so they packed his body off to a rented tomb in France but forgot/omitted to pay the rent and his coffin was turfed out amongst the hoi polloi francaise.
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Then war broke out and WB's coffin could not be returned to be buried in Drumcliffe 'til hostilities had ended. By then who knew which coffin was which? There are major doubts that Yeats is buried under bare Ben Bulben's head at all! If not him then qui? And if qui is not il then ou est William?
Mon Dieu, quelle question!Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-80649192728107720402017-09-02T21:21:00.003+01:002017-09-02T21:21:44.729+01:00Being good enough, is rarely the criterion.Oh, Jesus, what can I say. It's been so long. I'm used to FB, or worse, twitter, the Haiku of social media. Here (Blogland) you can breathe, luxuriate in space and freedom.
So much water under the bridge. You can never step into the same river twice. I think you can but you won't be the same person.
What has there been since I last stepped into this river? Death, my mum and my mother in law, my nephew, and ridiculously amongst such gravity, but yet perhaps not quite so ridiculous, my dog.
Ostricisation by virtually every poet and poetry outlet in the whole of Ireland. Hell hath no fury like the fury held for a whistleblower. Ill health, depression, drink, writing, surviving, living, yearning,hoping, enduring, fading if not quite yet failing. I should post a pic of my dinner,or a cat wearing a hat, this is no place for hurt.
The mag I co-edit is possibly/probably the best in Ireland, the most neglected, reviled.How dare a non-university (un)educated prole try to enter our hallowed hall? Where will it end, if we let them in? Poetry may be (should be) truth, but truth stands no chance against lies and deception. I think we'll call PB 'The Mag they Couldn't Hang'. If we survive. PB7 is due soon. It's wonderful. Not that anyone will admit it.
My second collection, 'The Death of Poetry' is , somewhat ironically, a lifeline. It won't be liked, no doubt it will be shot down like REd Kite in the wrong place, or worse, totally ignored, because it won't be their story, it may contradict their lies, but it will be my truth.
Somebody recently mentioned (and like all (occasional) ego maniacs I thought it pertained to me and even if it didn't I could see how it (mistakenly could), 'blank white flags' Well TDOP will be (please God, it will 'be') many things, but white flags, it won't. I'm envisaging poems more along the lines of Red rags to bulls(hit).Watch out for it!
We are all dying, we are dying from the day we are born, it is not the result that matters, but how we played the game. Except it isn't a game, that's where the elite go wrong. This is it, this is serious, this is real.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHiv81ogzAC0d5IwjbjcMWETGrA_e28jVgkV_gC4DzzZnSPmStM70_nl412JwcCOy_tenxTM8Q3ZuXh5cVP0tO-pNE7vO_J26PGqSdmeBCUaiYJ3fauIKsA_vuf47_tOl86qqriR-DtQ/s1600/CONEY+ISLAND.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHiv81ogzAC0d5IwjbjcMWETGrA_e28jVgkV_gC4DzzZnSPmStM70_nl412JwcCOy_tenxTM8Q3ZuXh5cVP0tO-pNE7vO_J26PGqSdmeBCUaiYJ3fauIKsA_vuf47_tOl86qqriR-DtQ/s320/CONEY+ISLAND.JPG" width="213" height="320" data-original-width="1065" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>
Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-41949099293527122482016-07-26T19:55:00.002+01:002016-07-26T19:55:29.433+01:00There's a moth on a thistle!
In broad daylight, between the showers and the rain
and the sun. It's a bit muddy like, after all the rain,
in the field at the gable end of Seanie McHaughey's house,
over the five bar gate,
tricky now in wellos after 10 pints,
the slip and the slide of it all, among the crowds,
the throngs, the hordes,
descending there like it's Glastonbury.
The moth, still there, but not on the thistle,
on a Dandelion, a dent de Lion, a Piss the bed,
a clock head, blow to tell the time.
We need a shrine, a shroud, a commemoration,
an adoration, a plenerary divulgence
among all the effluence and the cows.
I Know, we know, the hanging gardens of Babylon,
The Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China,
We know men on the moon and heading to mars,
and the Holocaust, and children blown to bits
on Palestinian beaches, we know the clock counting down
in times square, the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima,
the Sistine Chapel, the sunflowers by the
one eared madman, we know,we've heard Gershwin,
Beethoven,The Sex Pistols,
but this is a moth upon a Dandelion, upon a thistle,
like, well like in a Heaney poem,
we need to bolt the doors lock the gates,
erect a grandstand, build an airport,
we have it, we have it, we have it,
the moth, the dandelion, the thistle.Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-31334130292909839252016-02-23T00:52:00.002+00:002016-02-23T00:52:50.505+00:00
So there it is. So there we are. Trump, Cameron, Kenny. The thing is, I know, politics, fairness,cruelty, left wing, right wing. I know.And it matters, and I will vote, and I will protest. But now. Here and now.
there is something. Not a poem, not a, what? Grand statement? Policy? Confession? No. This is an expression, a conveying of feeling, something that could be a poem, but clearly isn't.
I feel smiley face, I feel hope, I feel feathers. They are the things right? I don't know what I'm saying, but I'm saying what I'm knowing.
This is more than the main thing, but less than the major theme, the final thing. Or is it? There is the self, the self is the centre, there are so many selves.So many us to make we. We the people.
The people as individuals of collective solipsism. Empirical beings of personal history. Personal landscape, personal genetic nature, personal nurture.
All, well most, needing escape (hope , forgiveness, chance, enlightenment, answers). The less we travel the more we need flights of fancy, especially if what we seek to escape is ourselves. To not be me, ah that must be glorious, but not death, not yet. This is it, this is me right now in the moment, a record of now, because none of us can take then back.
Words. Too many words. But then the song. Talk. Too much talk. Sometimes.
Then we float, float on the dreams
of ourselves, against the odds:
still, though, despite,
because, well, because we can,
and because we won't give in, give up.
What else can we do but re-bound?
Our heads in our hands
lets us see nothing,
but inside.
Something, something is the beat,
something is so much better,
better than nothing.
Something, something, something.
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Something, a bit like nothing,
remains within.
Best not speak out,
or feel-out-loud.
Keep the mask dry,
your un-wet face,
have another kiss,
another chocolate,
another beer.
There,there,
my dear, cup of tea?
That's better.
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</span>This poem was published in The SHOp (RIP) issue 13 Autumn/Winter 2003. I loved The SHOp more than any other magazine, I'm bereft now that it has closed its doors. Nothing gave me more of a deep gutted buzz than getting poems in that wonderful magazine. Your first time is always special, this was my first time in The SHOp and i</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">t is the only time I've ever written a poem with a mag in mind.<br />They put it on the last page, I always think (wrongly perhaps) that the best poem goes first and then a good one last in a mag to finish off, so I was extra pleased. I really wanted the first page in The SHOp but never reached that dizzying height, but I did have the front cover of issue 30 which was a dream come true.<br /><br />The poem is inspired by my mother's father Francis Timoney who was born in Sligo and was wilder than a bush. He joined the British Army at 15 years of age for adventure, for something to do, he fought through the first world war and survived the battle of the Somme, he cooked and ate dog in the trenches and was deafened in one ear by a shell burst. Back home in Ireland he fought for Ireland against his old British comrades in the war of independence, again without a scratch. Finally,fighting on De Velera's side in the subsequent civil war he got shot in both legs on a raid on a barracks in Manorhamilton. One leg was amputated and the other kept a bullet lodged til the day he died . While convalescing from his operation he fell in love with a young nurse, Philomena Hayes and they got married soon after.<br /><br />They had 'the two days of it' good times and bad times. Francis (Frank), once a fine athlete (winning many running and triple jump medals in the army) now flew around on crutches, lord alone knows what flew around in his head. A lot of horrific things. He drank. They moved from country to town and back again looking for the thing that would find him (an ufindable) peace.<br /><br />Frank and Philomena had two children, my mother Carmel Imelda and her brother ,Alphonsus Cyril, who quickly changed his name to Timmy, well you would wouldn't you? Carmel and Timmy attended 12 different schools and lived at approximately 20 different addresses around Dublin and half the country. When there was no money,which was most of the time, they were happy, when there was money there was drink, serious drink. Always loving, always kind, but drunk, very, very drunk and all the mad episodes and adventures that go along with it.<br /><br />He died at 87 years of age alone and unmanageable (but not mad) in a fairly Dickensian mental hospital in Mullingar. We used to visit him, when I was a small child he was old,in a wheelchair and in constant pain from his wounds which never really healed. I've never encountered such incredible toughness and sadness in a human, he had the most beautiful kind blue eyes.I'll never forget.<br /><br />The Timoneys lived in Capel street for a while, the nearest bar was Slattery's, Frank drank there a lot, so whenever I was in Dublin I always headed to Slattery's in Granddad's honour. It was an interesting, old school pub, no frills, I liked it, then they did it up. It felt like a link was broken. So I wrote this poem for me, for Frank, for The SHOp. 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It means a lot to me.<br /><br />Jewel.<br /><br />Along Capel Street I stagger into Slattery’s<br />and stagger out again to be sure I have my wits.<br />What the hell have they done?<br />Is nothing sacred?<br />Is anything safe from their blandiose renaissance?<br />A curse on them whoever they are.<br />I barrel on to the Quays singing or talking to myself,<br />corpulent with drink and struggling<br />to re-inflate between bursts of song.<br />Filled with stupid elation<br />and fuelled on pints of stout,<br />I gaze wide-eyed and blowing,<br />at the new found beauty of herself,<br />Anna Liffey.<br />Spanned by an arch the whiter shade of pale,<br />her waters are expressive fecund and inviting.<br />With undulating, warm, open arms of green<br />she calls to me in clamshells of desire.<br />Wanting to be smothered within<br />and bursting for a leak,<br />I express myself,<br />let fly the floodgates,<br />a stream of pee to the pea green below,<br />relief and satisfaction in equal measure.<br />They’ll never take the piss out of Dublin</span>Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-63501712524106187242015-06-20T01:40:00.005+01:002015-06-20T01:41:32.808+01:00 As Beckett said, I can't go on, fuck it, I'll go on. 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The thing with , oh Jaysis, the awful thing and then sometimes the good thing is that I can't always differentiate, between them, whatever they are.. The trouble with not drinking is that you are sober. Who the hell wants to be sober? Sober as a judge, is that irony, satire, or an oxymoron? What terrible decisions might you make with all your faculties intact? Sober is only an M short of sombre. I don't want sombre, I want sombrero, I want Tequila, I want dancing girls and ready salted Hoola Hoops, I want the future to be an unpredictable present, in both senses.Gift/cadeaux and 'present' moment, the now.Life is a gift a present, but there's only a future that becomes a past. The now is the only future we have.'Now', as soon as we say 'now' it is the past, but it's the creation of the future, there is no now in the present moment, the present moment is only ever the future just about to happen and as soon as it happens it bypasses the now into the past. Live long , prosper and never trust a hippie, a politician, or a poet.<br />
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Pressure on ,brakes off,<br />
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Why do I write. 'Oh, you may as well ask me why I breathe' (My Arse!) Get a grip!<br />
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Anyways, listen, come here to me my little cogito ergo sums, there is nothing to be sure of, but that shouldn't stop you trying. I write things that aren't poetic yet masquerade as pottery. Probably.<br />
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And there they are. So what do you do with them? Nothing? Sit back and luxuriate in the soapy waters of your self-contained majestic masturbatory achievement, or send them off in the hope that they will be published, rubber-stamped?<br />
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Well, I send them off, not often but now and again. I used to send them in hope bordering on expectation. Now I send them with (almost) certain knowledge that they will be rejected. So why bother? Is it because they will be read, that they will be a straw added to the camels back?<br />
A straw saying something different, a straw showing that there is other writing out there other than beauty and bougainvillea and little known/well known to those in the know, exotic foreign places?<br />
A straw to show that non university non middle-class people have thoughts, something to say, and say it differently? And maybe something will change a little, but hopefully it will stay just as it is. What else would keep me going?!<br />
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<b><i>I live in an art house town</i></b><br />
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Seven bijou bars<br />
serve cactus canapes on a bed of regret.<br />
We are a lot less racist than we used to be<br />
and the passages at night are quite delightful,<br />
uber moderne graffitti gurus<br />
and a harmless rapper<br />
work on a mission<br />
and a handsome grant.<br />
The river still bleeds to the sea<br />
naked excrement<br />
but the Andy Warhol themed<br />
hole-in-the-wall serves cash<br />
on a bed of no regrets.<br />
This is an arthouse town<br />
the French films<br />
are all un-dubbed into the latest<br />
east coat west speak,<br />
pointy shoes point the way,<br />
the little dogs no longer weep in the street.<br />
Building blocks rock by the docks<br />
with a marine theme,<br />
shipwrecks and redundancies.<br />
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An old man was viciously assaulted and mauled and stuff over a period of several hours, possibly weeks, or days or whatever is the longest and most shocking ,by a rabid anarchist fox. George Niceman (86) is recovering at home with a cup of tea after his ordeal. His condition is reported to be 'stable' and his wounds 'not life threatening' despite the vicious nature of the attack. George who was nearly licked to death by the rampant vulpine sounded 'visibly upset' and eyewitnesses could hear his false teeth rattling during the hostage like situation even though they were miles away at the time. 'At one point' said Toby McNobody, 'I thought the fox was going to rip the man's head off and widdle in it.' It was clearly trying to turn the old fucker over on his roof, I mean head.'<br />
Fortunately for George (93) A nice man was in the vicinity of the area and saved George by whirling a rubber chicken and exposing his backside to distract the beast. The lovely Enda Kenny (Taoiseach) said the Fox's behaviour was indicative of something really awful and terrible and we should not tolerate awful terrible behaviour from anyone, specially things in fur coats.<br />
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Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-28853519611353404832014-11-17T01:15:00.001+00:002014-11-17T01:24:45.221+00:00What does that even mean? No, I won't think this video is incredible, no, I don't care about the cat and the elephant that are inseparable, even when they are having driving lessons. No, this petition won't change the world, nor will the next link change the way I think/eat/live/die. I've seen it all before and what I haven't seen won't be any different to what I've already seen. There is no magic, no lightning bolt, no answer, no quick fix, no life changing moment unless you survive a heart attack or are pulled from the wreckage<br />
I'm sick of it all, I'm tired of everything, but I still want to live, how fucking bad must death be? For these are all detours distractions to fill the mind until we die and then it is too late to do anything like think for yourself.And even thinking for yourself is probably a worse waste of time. We had time and we wasted it and if we didn't then we should have,and even not wasting it is a waste of time.Life, even when it is, is not worth a butterfly.<br />
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'Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions to forgoe:<br />
They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in thereat.<br />
They count it a sin, when poor people come in.<br />
Hospitality it selfe is drown'd.<br />
Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.'<br />
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I read the news today, Oh Boy!<br />
The first are complaining of being last,<br />
the ins are wailing 'out!'<br />
The dead are alive<br />
and the living dead,<br />
and the world turn'd upside down.<br />
The man with three houses<br />
complains about the man with four<br />
as if he hadn't two sticks to rub together.<br />
If Concorde were alive,(still self-adored)<br />
he'd be a bored, abhorred, aboard.<br />
Pass the champagne,comrade.<br />
So long one foot in the grave,<br />
so long forging the nails of the coffin,<br />
it now MUST be said,<br />
it is time to call it,' tis time to pronounce,<br />
poetry is , dead, dead , dead.Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-68800299398919564492014-11-06T02:41:00.000+00:002014-11-06T02:41:28.051+00:00<b>THE FALL</b><br />
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I look up the high rise see nothing but blue skies, two in the morning, the tin man running, James Joyce on the desk, his palatable Dubliners eaten by Ulysses, some Shakespearean malady cross infected by Brian Rix and Marty Mulligan.<br />Take to the bed then? Take vitamin C , take omega oil to be alpha male, feed yourself to the lions, the paeans of retrospective inordinate taste and standards, the censorship bored, the gang of four or five or six, and the cronies stirring the stirabout.<br />What can we do but nothing. Or something. Live before die. Take a trip around the English countryside, ride a shopping trolley up the Falls Road, paint banners of discontent over railway bridges to be ignored by the commuter belt commuters. We can always wish for more, we can always hope for more , but can we make it happen? This could be the last dance, this could be the answer, let's hope for the right question. A safety net, a Lamborghini Aventador, Cristal, Crystal Meth, Benzedrine, sodium lit , halogen bright, xenons blaze down the dark highway, snatch third, peddle down, bright lights are missing the two lane black top, the high regard, the selfish resemblance of rising tides the few, the many, being good enough, the last, the forgotten.<br />
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<b>Phaedrus, Brother.</b><br />
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Well I can't think, is the noise an echo or a reminder?<br />
when the only way is forward?<br />
You were with me brother,<br />
though I held the knife,<br />
you were with me brother,<br />
the best friend of my life,<br />
you saw them on their knees,<br />
you heard their puking beggng pleas,<br />
standards and heads were held high.<br />
You and me against the world, kid.<br />
Took the jibes with me<br />
felt the blows, held the spite,<br />
held them tight,<br />
grist to the gin mill<br />
the bitter pill,<br />
swallowed, swift.<br />
Life is a subtlety, like a sledgehammer.<br />
What doesn't kill you,<br />
makes you.<br />
And me.<br />
I loved you brother,<br />
we were united,<br />
we were never alone,<br />
you were never heavy,<br />
you could never die,<br />
you could not live,<br />
because you were never born at all.<br />
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Dear Diary,</div>
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Things were achieved little was lost, much was maintained, and oh, and oh dear, and Jaysis, I wrote a poem. Besides, or maybe because, it's the three R's that I could never master,<br />
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Rue, Regret, Remorse.<br />
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Why go back?<br />
It was that kind of a day, the usual kind. The best of times the worst of times. Sure we got petrol, we ate baked potatoes, there was sufficient for drunkenness , darkness ,light, halogen, almost lightening the weigh. Things done, so many things to do. A search for truth, a will to embrace it, reflect it. A desire to do good, be good. I met a good person and I met . We all meet. We all lie to some degree, for gain, or for kindness. But we've got to stop meeting like this. Words flow from my fingers (that's a search for truth, a search for self), a gloriously tragic waste of time? No. Time can be misspent, but it can never be wasted, time is its own reward, its own downfall. </div>
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<b>Dear Diary,</b><br />
<b>Today was a really shite day, a day as bad as only a Sunday could be. Morrissey was right. And it rained.</b><br />
<b>I got a really bad dose of the yips around Teatime, the shakes were so bad they measured 8 on the Richter scale and a local earthquake alert was issued.</b><br />
<b>Thank god for the back of the cupboard, the salvation of many a dipso. Down on my hands and knees ,stretching in past the Daz and the weighing scales I salvaged a quarter bottle of gin, some flat tonic, and a can of Carlsberg (probably the worst lager in the world) that had been left by a relative at Christmas.</b><br />
<b>Stormy weather abounds, people have been lost at sea, cliffs have fallen, streets are flooded and one of my best socks, the Italian merino wool one from TK Maxx, blew off the clothes line. Is there no god?</b><br />
<b>I did also find my missing paper weight and a reasonably edible mince pie, so maybe 2014 won't be so bad after all?</b><br />
<b>Love Peadar.</b>Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-15439354387342548232013-10-04T01:38:00.001+01:002013-10-04T11:43:29.106+01:00A blank page, like a sheet of snow, perfect, it covers everything, all the dirt and debris beneath and you've just got to get the size 9 wellos onto it, into it, steal a Subaru Impreza and donut the world back into reality, fragility, ugly isolation, vituperative vicissitudinous machinations preparations delegations and procrastinations,well? Maybe. Later on.<br />
Such temptations, such freedoms to speak, what holds back, tugs the coattails, don't push this to the abyss, just look in, from the edge,don't do, see what looks back from the black. Take words out, let lies, lie, truth dares,multitude of sins in us, pulchritudinous , paltry chewed in us, fortune fooled in us, life wasted by us, weighted bias, nighttime google vision, starlit monotheism , sotto crescendo, fresco, duodenum, step ladder. Words. People saying words doing deeds picking up stones throwing voices shoutly louding, deadpan eyes, windows, curtains replaced by blinds. How was this path trod, how many bootmarks in the white, this snowy landscape, this beautiful escape, why, how is it, how do they, dare they, how say they, who says they can say, where this is where where is this is this where is this where are we, going? Do we leave any trace in the snow after the snow has gone? And does it matter. Anti matter.The grave it e of the sit you a shun.Transcend mental medication. Letters pray.<br />
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I miss Totalfeckineejit, you know where you are with an Eejit. I think I miss blogging too.Comparing it to FB is like comparing the first world war to a Friday Night punch-up in the pub car park. No, I'm not really sure what that means either, but I'm sure it means...something. A hate, a love, a mood, a feeling, that is always preferable to, more beneficial than, ...nothing.<br />
Nothing is (paradoxically) the 'thing' we must avoid at all costs.<br />
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all' <i>Alfred Lord Tennyson</i><br />
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'Ever tried. Ever failed.No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' <i>Samuel Beckett</i><br />
'He who dares wins, Rodney' <i>William Shakespeare</i><br />
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You get the gist. I've tried the Barcelona style, very fancy, very expensive, very...irritating. I want to go back to Wimbledon, route one, I want the crazy gang, I want it to be...emotional.<br />
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Being a fish out of water is ok for a while, but then you get a bit panicky, specially when size nines are squeezing down on your gills. Deep down I know what this is all about, deep down I have no clue what it is all about.A Dickensian paradox.The best of times; the worst of times. Paradoxes galore this night, brother,sister.<br />
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But really we <i>do</i> know it is the worst, we are the lucky ones, which is why we must pluck the best from the gutter, the swamp, the greed, the ego, the abyss.I have stared into the eyes of the poetry Tyger; It is beautiful (I'm lying for the sake of balance), it is ugly, it is ruthless, it sees the world, it promises salvation, it is cold, red hot, knows of everything but cares for no-one but itself. Fuck fearful symmetry.<br />
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What does it all mean, dear reader? Unfortunately I have only questions. And the people who have the answers, who stick by them, cast them in concrete, do not like questions. Questions lead to change, nobody wants that?<br />
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I don't know what this is. All I know is it feels GOOD!<br />
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The weekly prompt is back. It would be the best of times if people joined in. Tell your friends, inform your enemies<br />
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As we sink this ship as we<o:p></o:p></div>
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At last! PB4 has been bolted together from raw flesh and bone and
steel in a well used shed in Co.Wicklow. 130 pages of brilliance will be
perfect bound and encased in a matt laminate cover and given electrical
charges and vodka until it comes pounding into life!<br />
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This may be the greatest creation since the wheel (8000 years BC) and the pop up toaster (1567 AD)<br />
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the 'Buy Now' above to order before stocks and the sands of time run
out of the house and go live in a commune in Zagreb. Prices are €14 for
Ireland and €15 for the rest of the world and include postage and
packaging and a MIGHTY 12 track CD of music and spoken word.<br />
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I'll tell you more about the magazine when my eyeballs stop bleeding and exhaustion turns to euphoria.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/54036394">Here's a taster! Illustrations from PB4 plus track by Laura Moody plus a few photos of my own.</a> Totalfeckineejithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012340126991815859.post-79079204594305787732012-08-22T14:44:00.000+01:002012-08-22T14:44:03.376+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The bus has 4 days left to make another €519 to meet its target of €1950 at fundit.ie HERE <a href="http://www.fundit.ie/project/pb4-issue-4-of-the-poetry-bus-mag">http://www.fundit.ie/project/pb4-issue-4-of-the-poetry-bus-mag</a> if we don't meet the target we get nothing !<br />
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SO! Here is an amazing offer/opportunity. The wonderful poet <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1618124315" href="http://www.facebook.com/kona.macphee">Kona Macphee</a>
has kindly donated a voucher for Darina Allen's world famous
Ballymalloe cookery school at beautiful Shanagarry in Co.Cork.The
voucher is valid for the whole of September and entitles TWO people to a wonderful afternoon that includes
lessons at the cookery school PLUS a gorgeous lunch for TWO!<br />
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cookery lessons alone cost €140.Lunch there is very rare and by
invitation only so this may be the ONLY chance you might get to have
this experience!! It is not possible to put a price on it as there are
no prices!!<br /> I'm looking for offers to pledge to the poetry bus.The
highest offer over €140 will get the voucher and a copy of PB4!! Please
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Here's a taster from Ballymaloe<br /><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> </span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">'When you step through the
little wooden side gate and into the courtyard of Ballymaloe Cookery
School you enter a different world. A world where the whole emphasis is
on food - growing it, preparing it, cooking it, eating it and,
crucially, enjoying it. A world that feels wonderfully cut-off because
it is in the middle of ten acres of organic market gardens'</span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">PB4 with 90 perfect bound pages of poetry (Lemn Sissay, Ian Duhig, Noel King, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Jude Moore plus many many more including new and exciting voices!) cutting edge illustration, articles, reviews, cartoons PLUS free audio CD of spoken word and music tracks INCLUDING James Yorkston!! <br />All this packaged and posted to your door for a pledge of €10! Sure ye'd be mad not to!</span></div>
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