Carpetbags
are different now.
Only a few loose ends
and the colours change.
In the marketplace
it's all up for grabs.
Dealers holding
a watching brief,
and the new order's in
hawking its wares.
Attache cases.
And the rules the same,
buy cheap, sell dear,
and no compartment now
for missing files,
not like the old ones.
Everything carefully stitched
except a few pockets
of resistance
taking a morality cheque
just for the present.
And everyone's waiting
for a White Christmas.
Photograph: Homeplace of Francis Ledwidge
Slane Co.Meath. Born 1887
Died France 1917.
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