GERARD BEIRNE
Vision of the Other World
(Inspired by the works of don Francisco de Quevedo)
Astrologers, alchemists,
crack-brained fools.
Petty-foggers cutting
thongs out of other men’s leather,
boring their noses with
hot irons, biting their nails to the quick.
Gawdy coxcombs and
hob-nailed boots, scythes and sheep-hooks.
Contented cuckolds with
pincers, crane-bills, scissors, saws.
Bare-necked women and all
sorts of gee-gaws.
Jilts, cheats, picklocks,
trepanners, tooth-drawers
picking a quarrel with
their gums. Rooks and jackdaws,
sons of whores,
crook-fingered and baker-legged, cramp-jawed
knaves and fools with
their tongues steeped in oil.
Catch-poled blockheads.
The bones I speak of are
dead.
Gerard Beirne teaches on the BA Writing and Literature Program, IT Sligo. He has published two collections of poetry and four books of fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards.
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