All that we wished for

Left undone

Marriages fail

Families disperse

All that we have

Is stolen from the earth.

 

All epics and rhapsodies

Silenced so

The hour of our birth

Is

The hour of our death.

 

Icicles, stalagmites and stalactites,

Preserve

Us, the bog poets.

Everybody laughed

When the cars

Finally suffocated

The spreading congestion

Left everyone exhausted

Fleeing

From the contagion of people -

Kill all the other animals

They cried

Animals with soft eyes -

Wild, with no disguise.

 

Separated animals are from the detritus of

Homo Sapiens - 

The killer species - .

Let humanity roll in shit

The last of the humans left on show

In Dublin – second city of the empire –

On the 16^th of June 1904

Now the numbers are more manageable.