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Liffey



Liffey


For Shane McGowan (1957 - 2023)


Broken poet, glorious mess,

Penny-whistle novelist,

Dublin's Boy.


Bellow at the sun,

serenade the moon,

Human comedy, wrought

into runcible tune.


A river of tears and pails of piss,

Uproarious laughter thumping bars,

Trays crashed, pint glasses smashed

Into diamonds that scar

and hang like medallions.


Lurching and flailing,

Exalted, elating,

You fell to climb

The ladder

Of song to the Stars.


Rest easy, Shane. You were one in a billion.


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