Posted by que on March 09, 2001 at 23:43:45:
"she was just 17"; "yesterday"; "an puc ar buile"; Bourkes bicycle shop with the poster of a black boy peddaling away from a lion on a Raleigh bike;new Clarke sandals every summer; MPSI Morans _____SoldInside; oxymoron wasn't he from the Turlough road; barefoot to school in summer & tar on my feet; the second post and the parcel post; the 3wheel bikes with the big baskets on front for parcel post; gob stoppers; playing crocks with ball bearings; smiggin marbles into a hole in the ground; mushrooms in August on a traneen; kimberly biscuits; fig rools - how do they get the figs into the fig rolls - who cares habibi they are gorgeous; music for middle brows with Des Kehoe; Halls pictorial weekly and his carefull enunciation of Shiite; donkey jackets; fixing a fuse with silver cigarette paper; cows grazing the long acre; scenes from the pictures: the fella with the periscope getting an eyefull of the girls doing calisthenics in South Pacific; crossing the channel Gloria asks Caesar if he is sick - yes sick transit Gloria; Oddball keeping himself in reserve in Kelly's Heroes, burning bridges by the Mike Kurd Congreation; the girls of the town - well thats for another posting.