1000 Drunken Nights in Stranmillis



Try this trick --

an epoch of sticky buckfast nightmares

  or dirty whitey smearing

     speed dobbers on souls

or rip the mirror image of a drunken Jack

  from the shiny midnight of a

     rum sticky floor





Try this trick--

           Rum Lash Sodomy

       and Kala Kala Kala

  and crazy glass smash

       and memories --

a hallucinatory soundtrack

tremendous shatter of noise

in the darkness thru which Belfast

       shadows crawl





Try this trick--

myriad neon wristbands rotate

a drunken candleabra

the great midget himself on the dancefloor

in a little red corvette

bappin' bappin' it bappin' it out





Or this trick--

   engaged always in war --

       be it

     Mr Bliss

  and the mutha - fuckin' Po-lice

       or Aaryl

  with his struggles with

     the daylight

          and the wasps

      and the Captain (poor Captain)

  what with walking

    and the glasses

and Selfish Mick's lethal

  vendetta with bins



Try this trick --

and spin it



One thousand halcyon

  stupours of madness and mirrors

and watching the ghosts drift

  away thru the frame

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