The Twilight League

I Have My Lady.
I Stole Her From Joyce
And He Didn't Seem To Mind Much
Off In Some Italian Village Dreaming Of Paris
Yet Wrapped Up In The Greeks And Their Affairs
But Today My Lady, She Is Spoken For And Of
Not In Zurich Because That Crowd Haven't Acquired Her Just Yet
No, She Was Mentioned In The Queens Head
In The Same Breath As Blacks And Dogs
Because A Rozzie Told A Rangers Fan To Go To Hell Or To Cricklewood
Wondering Will 'O Oliver Boy' Make The Transfer Deadline

I Have My Woman.
I Stole Her From Wilde
And He Cared But It Unravelled The Second Time
Though His Mother Still Gave It A Go
But Jane You Were Just Too Early
But Today My Woman, She Is Spoken For And Of
In The Bars Along The Yonkers Boarder
Singing Drunk About An Old Hunger And New Thirst
And Whispering A Change Of Hands
In The Pony Trade, For Katonah Has The Coke Scene Wrapped Up
While Its Hard To Keep P Diddy And His Pals Off McLean With These Cavan Landlords

I Have My Girl.
I Stole Her From Yeats
And Its Fair To Say He Kick Up The Dirt
So I Took Her Up North Before It Would Mean Something
Leaving Him With Mr Gregory's Young Lass
But Today My Girl, She Is Spoken For And Of
As If She Will Live On Confusing Her With The Ripped Notes To Maud Gonne
Later He Can Forget His Youth And Concern Himself With The Distance
From Dublin To The Geordie Shore For Our One Is In Nova Scotia
So We'll Call Our Show Fade Or Pale Street
And Then Go Ahead And Sell Father Ted To Channel 4

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Winterdrifts

We Never Looked
Just Followed Room To Room
While There's War
With Roman Candles Outside,
Burning Snowmen

'I Came
To See Me Fed, Not You Eaten'
In My Ear
Matching Steps To Kate Bush
Though Covered Hounds

Had The Floor
Lethal So We Held Another
And Slowed
As Best We Could Around
The Kitchen Island

'Not Now
But You'll Drop By The Flat'
And Hearing Their Coats
Dripping Away Along The Hallway,
Rising Sleeping Dogs

Only Then
I Realised I Had Been Dancing
After Hearing My Girl
'Did You Two Even Find A Light
After All?'

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So Say So

Your Shadow Only Moved
Because Some Lad's Car Was Pulling Out.
Now We're Only What You've
Done, Leaving Us In Doubt.
Sitting On Sills With Lips Trying To Prove
We've Something Else To Talk About.

Why Can't You See Me Trying To Smoke Your Breath
So I've Some Left, Before Morning Gets Going.
Still One Neon Shopfronts Glowing.
It's A Few Minutes Away From Snowing
And I Expect One Trail Of Footsteps
As We Are Due This Death.

CK

Fragment #54

We're The Pension Band
Competing A Mute T.V.
Fuck Killinaskully

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Ceasefires After Spring

Fall And Its On.
On The Razorwire.
The Prisoners Balling In The Rec Yard
And In Some Cells.
Catching It In Bedpans And Other Things.
Fire Upon A Guard
As Rebels Corner A Man Of The Kings
But We Still Have No Belts
After The Snow Melts.

CK

Fragment #53

'We Don't Fuck No More'
And Rich Girls Ask Was Jagger
Ever Good-looking

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Pharos

I Am Not A Religious Man
But I Am On My Way To Jerusalem 

But For Now, I'm Weeks With Them In Babylon
All Famine And Feasts
Or Floods
For Some Had Boyfriends
So We Didn't Kiss When Through
Just Slip Off And Out From Single
Room
To
Room.
In The Hall Recall How Awful It All
Was Enforcing The Postcode Rule
From Then I Made Rules Up
No Kissing.
At All.
Just Spine Shuttering Later As
My Fingers Smells 20 Minutes Old

It Was All Over And Over Her Hands Too
After Taking Bad Blood
Both Ours
And Putting It To Use.
Others Handprints Pushed Off Me
As Mine Grabbed Their Ribbed Backs
Again
And
Again
This Being The Last Exit From Alexandria
Thinking About How She Spoke
Of God, Jesus And Christ
Even Me,
Twice.
I Am Not A Religious Man
But Jerusalem, It's The Only Place Still Standing

From There I'll Wait, Looking Across Bay
Waiting For Her Lighthouse To Welcome My Stay.


CK

Bypass

Night Drive
Streetlights Lasso Us
And Swing Us To One Another

And Out On The Edge Of Town
Where Engines Start
We Break Down

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