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BEAUTIFUL LADY (1991)

SHE CAME THROUGH THE DOOR WITH A POSSE A’CHASIN’ THAT SHE JUST IGNORED ‘COS HER TIME THEY WERE WASTIN’

AND ONCE I WAS SURE THAT OUR EYES WERE EMBRACIN’ I CROSSED THAT DANCE FLOOR UNTIL I WAS FACIN’

THIS BEAUTIFUL LADY WHO MADE MY SOUL SMILE BY HAVIN’ HER WAY THERE WITH ME FOR A WHILE AND I’M NOT AFRAID THOUGH SHE’S DRIVIN’ ME WILD I COULD LOVE HER

WE’D NOT MET BEFORE BUT SHE SET MY HEART RACIN’. THAT RED DRESS SHE WORE CAUSED SUCH A SENSATION

SO RIGHT THEN I SWORE I’D BREAK THROUGH THE ICE CASING ‘COS I WANTED MORE YEAH, I FELT LIKE TASTIN’

THIS BEAUTIFUL LADY WHO MADE MY SOUL SMILE BY CHOOSIN’ TO PLAY HERE WITH ME FOR A WHILE AND I’M NOT AFRAID IF SHE SLAYS ME WITH STYLE ‘COS I LOVE HER

THE LOVE’S BEEN SO PURE AND ITS MAKING AMAZING SHE CAME WITH THE CURE FOR THIS IMPATIENT PATIENT

WITH SO MUCH IN STORE I’LL NOT BE REPLACING THE ONE I ADORE WITH SOME PALE IMITATION

SHE’S A BEAUTIFUL LADY WHO’S MADE MY SOUL SMILE BY CHOOSIN’ TO STAY HERE WITH ME FOR A WHILE AND I’M PROUD TO SAY WE NOW HAVE A CHILD AND I’LL LOVE HER I’LL LOVE HER TOO

The pin-pointedly accurate removal and martyrdom of mad mullahs during Ramadan can only serve to re-ignite the fiery militant muslim clerics’ ire. With the decapitation of a suffering nation’s leader, must we now cede to a global power’s “Peace through Strength” strategies and recede into their lauded lawless legitimacy ? The universally abhorred, and warned against, Forever War, has essentially over-ridden pathetic pleas for peace. The bellicose strides, with unknowable consequences, please only the malevolent munitions manufacturers gleefully grasping profits from all sides.

LOYALTY CARD” LIVE 2019

Gotten grey, got no grá for the fight Try to keep all my shit outta sight From now on, though I’ll surf in cafes ‘cos of things that I heard yesterday This guy knows what it’s all been about Mobile sims, chips and pins map your rout But less secure’s how I feel there’s no doubt ‘n my loyalty cards freaking me out Yeah my loyalty cards freaking me out ‘said my loyalty cards freaking me out and I don’t like being tracked when I’m out somy loyalty cards freaking me out I have marched to protect human rights Gave my name to defend those in flight Taken salt with the things the Man says Found the faults in the games that he plays. Though I don’t have political clout Little whispers can swell to a shout So I don’t like being tracked when I’m out ‘n my loyalty cards freaking me out Yeah my loyalty cards freaking me out Yeah my loyalty cards freaking me out ‘said I don’t like being tracked when I’m out ‘n my loyalty cards freaking me out

© B. Hickey March 2011

I’m a wee bit anxious that having, thanks be, poked our head above the parapet, we are not prepared yet for any incoming flak. I admire the fact that our stance on Gaza always backed Palestine. And to be kept in mind, is the public’s call for Israel’s exclusion from events from which Russia’s participation had also been prevented.
But our nation’s recent approval of extra funding for Ukraine has seen our removal from the harmless list
and we are persistently watched as we float further and further away from neutral waters.
Eire’s actions have brought us untold, but regular mentions on Russian State media
and we urgently need a European scaffold for our flimsy defences.

Did Alannis Morrissete play a part in fixing the draw for soccer’s Nations League ? I’m still intrigued that The only European association to call for Israels exit from the competition was the F.A.I..because of, well, without divine intuition, we all know why. BUT much as with Eurovision, that righteous decision got such little or no support and a revision of rules should now be duly decreed. Then the football deities play with these little tiffs and gifts the teams with same group angst. As well as “Thanks for Nothing”, we’re busy putting time into how to react to the fact that, undoubtedly, some war criminal louts will be sent out, with their fans, to fill the stands with hate filled rants. There’s not much chance Austria or Kosovo will go against the ruling now, so how do we show disgust ? By September the testing of this irony will have to be how best to be supporting the green vest. COYBIG

NOTRE DAME 1924

BRAVING MINUS TWENTY DEGREES

IN THE FAHRENHEIT DEEP FREEZE

HAS NOT DETERRED THE STAMPING FEET

THAT TRAMPLE OVER ICED DECEIT

THE ALARM HAD BEEN SET ON SNOOZE

BUT DUMB COMPLIANCE WAS ABUSED

AND SOON THE WASPISH KKK

WILL SEE DEFIANCE COME THEIR WAY.

IN SOUTH BEND NINETEEN TWENTY FOUR

THE WHITE ROBED MEN LET OUT A ROAR

“NO IRISH WANTED ANYMORE”

AND INTO TOWN THEY START TO POUR.

THEY PLANNED A RALLY IN THE SQUARE

AND THOUSANDS WOULD BE GATHERED THERE

MOST CITIZENS THEN SHOOK WITH FEAR

AS TORCHES STARTED TO COME NEAR

BUT NOTRE DAME HAD HAD ENOUGH

THEIR FOOTBALL STARS COULD PLAY IT ROUGH

HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS JOINED THE FRAY

AND THE BATTERED RACISTS WERE CHASED AWAY

RESISTANCE TALES FOR IMMIGRANTS

MIGHT BRING RESOLVE TO INNOCENTS

WHO JOINED TOGETHER NUMBER MORE

THAN THOSE WHO SMASH DOWN NEIGHBOURS’ DOORS.

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“BEGGARS BELIEF ?” 23/1/26

Alone, after alienating another ally and averring armed annexation as an alternative, always. But blatant bullying braggadocio before billions beggars belief. Can the clown’s cunning conspiratorial controllers convince credulous cult converts the drivelling Davos debacle, displaying droning demential danger, doesn’t destroy dictatorial dreams?

“EXCESSESSESSES” 16/1/26
A century later, while the simmering states shook in similar social stress, the vampireich responded to resuscitation. The urban myth files, once so reviled as hyperbolic, are symbolically re-styled under reasoned retrospection. The excess essess collection of ingredients, in the icing melange, for the supreme leader’s cake, goes beyond deep fake Isis delusions and entices the conclusion that sacrifices will be made in the war that has already begun.

“UNFUNNY JESTER” 11/1/26

An imagined invasion of Hamlet’s sovereign lands, with lethal levers in the hands of psychopathic narcissists, has become more than a persistent intrusion in the breaking news quagmire. The forced retirement, of sensible diplomats, re-fires the might is right strategy, despite all, now non-deterring, penalties. The FIFA peace prize ignored V.A.R. and reordered regulatory rules for a fool’s vanity. Invasion’s insanity lingers in the clinging aura of the unfunny jester-like sidekick. Not so Much the Miller’s son as an unctuous incubus extracted willingly into a surreality ripe for sadistic sedition. The creation, from an infected womb, became alive for project 2025, whose object is democracy’s doom.