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  1. benson, a friend of mine used to tell me he could walk into an Irish bar and start playing a few things on the jukebox and get most of the drunk patrons to start crying.

    Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 17, 2010 11:39 AM

    Let me guess,

    “She Moved Through the Fair”
    “The Parting Glass”
    “Hello in There” (for the inevitable hipster there for the atmosphere)

  2. closing the circle, jester, here’s where Seamus met the bard:

    I am Hamlet the Dane,
    skull-handler, parablist,
    smeller of rot

    in the state, infused
    with its poisons,
    pinioned by ghosts

    and affections,
    murders and pieties,
    coming to consciousness
    by jumping in graves,
    dithering, blathering.

    Oh, and some more Seamus for St. Pat’s:

    My grandfather could cut more turf in a day
    Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
    Once I carried him milk in a bottle
    Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
    To drink it, then fell to right away
    Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
    Over his shoulder, digging down and down
    For the good turf. Digging.

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