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Nov 2012
Montana shoeshine man has ***** shoes,
Billie sings “That Ole Devil Called Love”,
The sun is shining but rain falls over me.

Occasional internet frustrates all work,
Every problem is someone else’s fault,
A Groundhog Day of daily tasks undone,
The black dog is with me in this place.

Is it me or is it them I ask myself again?

Today I cannot even die enough to cry-
Guess it’s those old Haiti Blues again.
The Montana Hotel was my favourite hotel in Port au Prince in Haiti - 200 died when it fell down in the earthquake in January 2010
Ian Beckett
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Ian Beckett  Dublin and Vienna
(Dublin and Vienna)   
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