Every Now and Then

Scared of feeling – happy?
Guilty for feeling – okay?
Heads in your knees,
Tears in your beers,
Milking the doom, hip horray!

Obama
Sarkozy
Grumpy
Brown.
G20 Musk,
London Town.

Whatever the promise,
Whatever I swore.
Whatever I wrote tonight,
Ignore.

Split lip stained
With red wine
Tooth decayed
By smoke and time

After, one more beer and one more smoke
Then I’ll go to bed
I sing,
One more smoke and one more beer
And then I’ll go to bed!

After, one more smoke and one more beer
Then I’ll go to bed
I sing,
One more beer and one more smoke
And then I’ll go to bed!

Talkers – we have plenty.
Doers – are we empty?

RTE
It say sorry
For reporting what everyone had seen!
Well feck me
What a furore
At least the underpants were clean!

The Gardaí
Sprang into action
Prompted by “the powers that be”!
Well feck me
What a distraction
A parody spawned by, parody!

Has been a few days, I’ve had time to reflect,
On the sport last weekend and the effect.
There was much to admire and respect,
There was little to belittle or regret.

In weeks to come and maybe months,
I will think of the rise of my goosebumps.
Big hearts and kidney…done thumps,
The kicks, hooks, tries and triumphs.

When asked for your pin,
They usually look away.
Confess to priest a sin,
Here just tap, and pray.

With big people’s lies
There’s lives tossed aside
But the big headlines hide
Small people and pride

A drive from Mallow to Fermoy
Then drove on, to Lismore
Drives like this, I enjoy
The opposite to drive bore

A horse racing pearl
Over fence and hurdle

Don’t ever give up
Don’t ever fade
Don’t ever think
Everything has been made

Don’t slip from the cup
Don’t fall off the wave
Don’t fear to blink
That ship hasn’t sailed

Rock and sand,
Age and it’s malevolence.
I look at my hand,
Wrinkles gain prevalence.

Grass gets firsts mow,
Rabbits are scurrying.
Winter laid low,
Spring, hurrying.

Missing kid in the hall,
Like it is, he call.