Which isn’t true. I believed. I had believed. I still do believe! Eamon O’Brien took a small, under-rated team of nobodies, to the All-Ireland Semi-final. Not the summer I had imagined! And, with grim statistical precision, we lost. Kerry 2-8 Meath 1-7 The thing is, not that we lost, as predictably we did, but that I [...]
I really shouldn’t post this up on my internet, but … ah shur fuck it. For your information, I present my Hangover Rating System: Hangover Star rating system: 1 star hangover * – feel a small bit groggy, but can get up at the usual weekday hour and do a normal day’s work – when [...]
This all seems so strange now, but here’s a poem I wrote exactly a month ago. A lot of water under the bridge since then, but as Colum Mc Cann said, “If you stand in the same river for too long, even the banks will trickle past you”.
SpaceFairy and I broke up last night. A supersonic stratocaster of a relationship that lasted all of 3 weeks, 4 days, 12 hours and 47 minutes – but who’s counting? If you read the last post then I don’t think you will be surprised to hear that I am, for want of a more appropriate [...]
I am pretty sure that the market for poetry these days is infinitesimally small, and am even surer that that market is wholly dominated by failed and fanstastically pathetic poets. All of which only matters if you are a poet who cares about the ‘market’, in which case I daresay you aren’t a poet at [...]
Where did I go? I came back from Bratislava last Monday fortnight, although to be honest, I still don’t feel like the the plane has landed yet. The last two weeks have been something of a blur, and I’m still pinching myself, still waking up in the morning wondering if this is actually happening. Allow [...]