I sit

pulling hairs out of my

chin

getting fat off

the land in a

recession

While watching

Face book

videos of artists

in Canada

Dancers, Cellists

Bach suites and originals

music

movement made

by lithe and supple

women

Women I once knew

And danced with too

While I sit

pulling hairs out of my chin

getting fat off a land

in a recession

Watch muscular women

play fight

and swing

fall, slide

leap and contract

Dancing in unison

moving within time

gesture the present

and sweat out the past

While I sit

pulling hairs out of my chin

getting fat off a land

in a recession

Watch myself not

doing what I once did

across a floor

barefooted and thin

looking like the next one

standing  in the line

choreograph my exist

and bow for spare change

While I

in a recession

of a fat land,

chin out,

hair pulling,

sit.

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Tonight the Written Word Weekend presents the first

Open Mike Poetry and Prose Night at Berry’s Tavern 8:30 to 10pm

Then I’m scurrying up the mountain to Club F to perform at a Ukulele Hooley where three uku players are on the bill ( i’m the first up)  Followed by one lad from Limerick and  then a young woman from the USA.

meanwhile… its raining cats and dogs over here. 10 am Friday morning with fresh towels on the line and the good rain giving them an extra wash and the wild wind whipping.

And for those readers this side of the pond and up here in the north west the

Carrick -on-Shannon Creative Writing  Class resumes September 23rd at the Breffni Family Resource Centre, with yours truly leading the practise.  Get over and get yer pens out.

Written Word Weekend

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Cheers my dears thanks for clicking on

always eileen