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Hey Gyppo, Your two stage-strutting poems were a great follow-up to a movie we watched last night "The Greatest Showman". My reaction to the movie was mixed--the good part was that it was visually a lot of fun and I loved the bar room  choreography-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9QtXwC9vc In t...

Performers are narcissistic Performers are narcissistic, but only in public. Strutting their stuff and feeding on audience energy. Riding high on approval, challenge, nostalgia, or that special pair of eyes sat three rows back. There's always someone three rows back, someone who understands . An ol...

Hey, they're looking at me Hey, they're looking at me! Only a walk-on part today, an amiable bearded buffoon, a street performer's 'prop', randomly picked from the crowd. Smile for the painted lady, pretend to be embarrassed. It makes the un-chosen feel good, safe in their anonymity and revelling i...

Gyppo Haiku

I wrote a haiku once, with the correct syllable count, explaining why I don't like writing haikus.  It's in the archives somewhere, but so far I can't find it.  I may have to search through the 'old place'.  But not tonight.

I saw the Romeo line coming, which didn't lessen it's heft.   Another heartwarming story. Favorite phrase:   until I tripped over my own hormones Stories of my doing so are no where near so endearing. :D T The structure of the two wash-houses was one building, despite a very solid wall between them...

I think I wrote this for Napo two or three years ago.  Recalling a more innocent time. ===== Carling with Cathy Sitting on my Gran's gate in the sunshine, sharing a can of Carling. Black label no less, with the girl next door. Tall enough to get served at fourteen, and a 'smooth git', a polished lit...

Just to show I can write shorter pieces ;-) ===== Never grow bitter Bare feet, faded denims, long straight black hair turning prematurely grey. A waist-high Irish Wolfhound  stands placidly alongside. Leashed on a thick rope, with a leather bound loop around her skinny wrist, jostling for space with...

An enjoyable read Gyppo. I think "stoner neo-pagans" is quite funny. I read it as a nice slice of life poem, although it is a little bit too close to a short story in my opinion. It could have gone either way. As for the stoner neo-pagans...  I guess my personal bias is showing.  My Mum, an old sch...

Colm Roe wrote: ↑

Mon May 07, 2018 6:49 pm

I do remember reading this (or one very similar to it) before Gyppo. You certainly are a bit of a seanchaí the way you draw the reader in in such an engaging way. Loved it.

You've got me in one, Colm

Perhaps because the apartment complex is a world of its own in which an alliance and mutual support system between those who have so little has developed? That's probably it.  I've seen a few of these micro-environments where the most unlikely of alliances form and flourish despite the odds. Catch ...