TRICK
OR TREAT YOU BASTARDS
Karen Thompson was having her halloween pint in her local
when a couple of freedom fighters blew out her brains, for a
joke-o.
Derry, derry, down, down, down
Derry, derry, down.
Oh the hed hed lines
on the morning District Line.
How can people laugh?
How can people smile?
Derry, derry, down.
KT 17, her fiancé Steven Mullan and five others murdered
in the Rising
Sun Pub, Greysteel, Londenderry, 30 October 93.
FLIP
FLOP FLIP
cliffs Idra Mochlos
Cuyamungue
my damnfool trick
of taking off into
the unfamiliar rough
no water no hat
beach sandals
no compass no
map no fire
starter no tellin' anyone
where I'm going no
knowin' where I'm going
damnsure gonna get
me killed someday
hooray
hooray
hooray
THE
TEST
Grow old along with me
& Tony & Joe & I had not
thought so many
the test is yet
fast friends fade
strength
memory
fades
mom has passed
away
away away
dad passed
away away
orphaned in this
world
of
infinite contingency
infinite decrepitude
the test is yet:
to
be!