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| Ben Ros (1952-1994) in Connemara - 1992
photo © Johannes van den Bos
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Dublin
revisited
Introibo
ad altare Dei
and
bewildered by the same lass
who showed
Stephen her thighs
at the bay
of the snotty green sea.
And later
that day a pint in McDaid's
under the boldly painted eye
of Brendan
Behan.
Drink in,
absorb; it's still possible now.
‘A pint
of plain is your only man’,
as Flann
O' correctly once wrote.
Because
when soon the days
are
shining too clear
in the
low, the low countries
and the
wind blows too, but not bleak,
then by
emptying the bottle
my whole
goddamed trunk will be filled
with
yearning for that far-away country
of littres
and literature-
Ó Eire,
land so dear
of liquor
and literature!
Original title: Dublin revisited. Published in: Literair tijdschrift 'Van Overheidswege' - 1e jaargang nr 4 voorjaar 1983 Rotterdam
Original title: Dublin revisited. Published in: Literair tijdschrift 'Van Overheidswege' - 1e jaargang nr 4 voorjaar 1983 Rotterdam
