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Shane Connaughton poem help

  • 23-12-2013 2:18pm
    #1
    citybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭


    I'm looking for the name of a poem by Shane Connaughton for one of my channels subscribers on youtube. It's on this video http://youtu.be/K5Q0aUyO_6A at 45:45.
    I sorta remember it from school and thought it was called 'No Irish Need Apply' but can find nothing on google under that.

    The end of the poem reads;
    There's a woman walking down the street
    With Autumn hair and Winter teeth
    I'd like to kiss her and tell her (lies?)
    But she'd see my face has got no eyes
    London tore them from the sockets
    Destroyed my mind and emptied my pockets
    The drink has all but ruined my liver
    And the subby sold me down the river
    So I'll walk with the rest of them, up and down
    Between Mornington Crescent and Camden Town
    Pains in my belly, sore in the head
    Aimless wandering, Immigrant dead


Comments

  • #2
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    I think it's:

    With Autumn hair and Winter teeth

    It's a lovely/tragic poem anyway. Never heard it before, and unfortunately I don't know anything about it, and can't find anything on Google either.


  • #3
    Agent Weebley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭Agent Weebley


    Here you go:

    poemhunter.com

    I used https://ixquick.com

    searched : Connaughton poem


  • #4
    citybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭citybhoy


    Thanks for the replies and link but there's only a short biography of the poet there and no poems.
    Thanks again :)


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