Monday 31 May 2010

Ode to Larry Dugan

Ode to Larry Dugan

Shall I turn my best side
and look lively to Dublin
my long-haired
long-nosed chum
or shake a loose leg
for a loose-coated game
or stay where I am
and play the loose fish?

In my Lombarded-fever
shall I play the lounge-lizard
lousy with money
one who finds the needle
in the bottle of hay
or stay where I am
and care not a louse
to be down on my luck?

In lumpish Dublin mood
shall I stop up my lugs
and peer down my nose
and into my glass
when the dogs leap the stiles
or shall I sit here a while
and lay down the lore
with Larry Dugan's wax°?
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gw2010

°Larry Dugan was a famous Dublin shoe-shine man

Not to cry for the moon

Not to cry for the moon

and the minions of the moon

but to cast beyond the moon

and the elephant man

with his moon-eyed hens

with their blind hen brains

clucking into this blue mooned night . . .

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gw2010