Shacked Up

Shacked Up

Designs on it

From the beginning

The quick fix.

Take care of planning

The suits,

Shoes off at the door.

Not too much interest.

The bare look

About the place,

The gifts

Considerations,

Like the angle of repose

The maintenance.

A promise of

You scratch my back

And I'll scratch yours.

The joints everywhere

The soft pile,

Main bedroom upstairs

A big rip-off!

Went septic in the end.

The house

That Jerry built. Photograph Top: The River Delvin where it enters the sea at Gormanston.

Forecast

Forecast

I swear another age
Of this reason
Will see the end of us.

The soothsayers
Will be there
On the last night
Clutching a copy
Of Dead Certainty
The proofs outweighing
The process
They condemned.

While the arbiters
Of right and wrong
Tie
Their purse strings
Around our neck
On the promise of
A new order
Witch hunting.

And all you can
Hope for
Is that they'll burn
Themselves out
And you don't
Get caught on
The wrong side.

Photograph: A winter scene
Kilmessan
Co. Meath.

Tally Ho!

"That which makes us common to

rather than that which separates

us from the worst of nature"

Hunting.

Tally Ho!

A motley bunch

Of out of sorts

With horse and hound

To pass for sport.

Made entertainment

Of an ill

Called it the least cruel

Way to kill.

And didn't realise

The choice

Was just another

Kind of vice.

Is that an argument

That's sound!

The morals here

Have gone to ground.

Photograph: Bridge over the river

Blackwater/Lough Ramor

Virginia Co. Cavan. 2007