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poem

  • 25-02-2004 8:58pm
    #1
    adonis
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    bored in work with nothing to do,
    i look at my underarm, scratched intials there , and thought of you.
    oh! this work, its boring, its pointless, theres little or nothing to do.
    48 months of my life, wasted, worked, i feel like i am stumbling through glue


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  • #2
    simu
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    stumbling through glue

    Nice image that!


  • #3
    jerenaugrim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by simu
    Nice image that!

    Paul Durcan line, innit?


  • #4
    simu
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    Oh, is it? Do you know the name of the poem?

    Well done P. Durcan, then - if that be true!


  • #5
    jerenaugrim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by simu
    Oh, is it? Do you know the name of the poem?

    Well done P. Durcan, then - if that be true!

    Don't know the name of the poem, offhand, but it's about a baker going home at dawn. The last two lines are something like-

    A tiny giant stumbling through glue.
    A human being about to break in two.

    It's in A Snail in My Prime (I think), Paul Durcan's best of from the early 90s.
    Back before he lost the plot altogether.


  • #6
    Senor_Fudge
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    ya i like that stumbling through glue thing
    reminds me of when im stoned and trodding through the jungle


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  • #7
    simu
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    How has he lost the plot, out of curiosity? I don't know much about English poetry.







    (Relevance to this thread:might keep adonis from going insane)


  • #8
    jerenaugrim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by simu
    How has he lost the plot, out of curiosity? I don't know much about English poetry.







    (Relevance to this thread:might keep adonis from going insane)

    Well, his poetry was always loose, formally, but had surreal brilliance (See the one about the mother getting jail for destroying the family TV). The looseness seems to have taken over, tho' and since he's gone establishment (poem on front page of Sunday Indo about the death of Princess Diana of Wales), I think he's kinda lost what he had...:dunno:


  • #9
    simu
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    poem on front page of Sunday Indo about the death of Princess Diana of Wales

    Oh dear


  • #10
    jerenaugrim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by simu
    Oh dear

    Indeed.
    and the last line went something like-

    Die, Dodi, die. Do, Di, do.

    Seriously! :rolleyes:


  • #11
    adonis
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    never heard of him guys....
    i know you'll all find that a little hard to fathom...
    but hey!


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  • #12
    jerenaugrim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Fair play to you so;)


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