Verboten


        Yes, I’m Irish but not

      related to Rick O’Shea,

    yet, my life is no different

    to that of an atomic poet.


  Sometimes I feel as though

   I am the bouncing bearing

   on a pinball machine, often

   parked similarly, on a *****


    Occasionally I am woken

    by flashing lights only to

         be told, game over,

  move on, camping verboten.