It is based on trade
Wind trajectories,
Roaring forties, gale
Force and doldrums.
By triangulation such
As Bermuda iSOSoles
Isolationism, locating
May Day Distress calls
Avoids GPS tracking,
Thus permitting high
Seas seizures simply.

I recall writing a dark
poem in pitch ink on
a stygian parchment.

Reminded me of when
I painted my bedroom
completely, in coal black,

but, for a brown bakelite
****, on the surface of
a gun barrel union lock.

The shade diffused what
light there was, the bulb, a
dying star in a distant galaxy.

It could have been
Bower house or
Our house but for
The Homeless in
Gaza it is rubble and
Re-bar in a mound.

An installation artist
Would no doubt coin
A wonderful title for it.

There is a distinct lack
Of colour or are all the
Photos purposely black
And white, lunar like the
Burren District of Clare.

Where Yeats said that
“ there wasn’t a tree to
hang a man nor soil to
to bury one “

Today as the risen sun
Climbed to the top of
   Tower House in
    The Guardian

     cast a crying eye
    on strife on death
      donkey pass by

(‘< propaganda’r wishes
(‘> dumbed down ducks
  A safe happy Christmas.
   Be careful of quack’ers
   Ovens micro waves and
   Barbecues. Get laid but
   Please don’t get plucked!

M’Aidez M’aidez became
May Day             May Day
Shah Mat became Check Mate.

Yet, there are people consume
Main Street Media’s daily diet
Without ever questioning it.

Chess was invented in Persia
An Islamic Muslim state, not
Arab, but there are no bishops.

Yet, there on the board either
Side of the monarch, are two.
Now why is that ask yourself ?

The papal crusades removed
The ships ( which tack ) if you
Are familiar with wind and sails,

So, why would a bishop move
Diagonally across the board?
It makes no sense, not to me!

If you don’t play chess and you
Have never sailed, then there is
An excuse for not knowing this.

Ditto if one takes MSM to be an
Accurate assessment of world
Affairs, even in an en passant.

Did they get you to use teabags
Instead of tea leaves, slice pan
Rather than a loaf of bread?

Is it cost or convenience or is
Careless consumer syndrome?
Ask yourself am I a dumbed down

                        (‘>
                         ?

In the forest, just past
Jack Daw’s place there
are a cluster of trees
next to the Crow Bar.

It can be a bit noisy at
night especially when
the Caw Bogues and
Prechains are there.

Raven up till all hours
and then they go and
perch without a thought
for anyone else in the tree.

Those who went home
early and took the lower
branches are shat upon all
night, hence Rook Bottom!






Ps Irish words
          /
Prechain (preycawn)= Crow
        /
Cabog  (cawbogue)= Fcukin Eejit

Originally known as
Snakes Belly this
County Down group,
have, according to
Gutter Press managed
to maintain number
1 position at bottom
of the charts with a
Black Christmas song
about delirium tremors.

Sung by Grand Mal in
what has been deemed
their most quaking
performance to date
@thelowlife-theatre.ie

Sink Hole Studios in
Mitchelstown Caves
said that Stalagtites
fell from the ceiling.

Christy Moore later
commented by saying
the song  “ Fake ****** “
should be banned because
it was an insult to Irish
epilepthicks dyslexsicks
and also schizophrenics.

Grand Mal said that he
was influenced by light
into darkness when he
associated it with a pint
of Guinness, but St James
Gate wished to distance
the brewery from this
vile mockery of Irish
****** Pats and of the
bands veiled reference
to Alcoholics Anomaly
in their chosen name.

Petit Mal the singers son
told Eugene Cosgrove of
The Corkman to go and
**** himself when he
was asked to comment!