Tag: Kevin Higgins

  • ‘The House That Don Built’ by Kevin Higgins

    ‘The House That Don Built’ by Kevin Higgins

    “The sky is high / We shit on earth / We look up the sky / The earth gives birth / To our future”                                                              …

  • ‘After The Revolution’ by Kevin Higgins

    After The Revolution for and entirely inspired by Quincy Lehr   We will pay homeless people to follow poet and critic Matthias Wetruder. And not just into drug-stores, dry-cleaners, and taxi-cabs (though there too) but also into Japanese restaurants where said homeless person will sit next table vociferously demanding, as will be his or her…

  • “One Has To Admire His Ability As A Poet” by Kevin Higgins

    One Has To Admire His Ability As A Poet “I was struck by … his courage in speaking out to defend the memory of Charles Haughey” Vincent Woods, RTE website To defend the memory of Boris Yeltsin’s vodka bottle. To take money from both the late Benito Mussolini and, when pragmatism demanded it, those who…

  • “Treatise on Uselessness” by Kevin Higgins

    Treatise on Uselessness after Rosita Boland Throughout my truly enormous life, I’ve never found a use for gypsies. When one decides to spend the night searching online for a worse deal on one’s house insurance, there’s never a gypsy about to help. Or when one advertises a vacancy for Associate Professor of English at Trinity…

  • “How to Rid Yourself of Election Canvassers” by Kevin Higgins

      Ask them where they stand on the urgent need for a Greater Serbia. Tell them nothing has been right since the Treaty of Versailles, for which you hold each and every one of their kind personally responsible. Tell them the council’s been promising to chop down that tree for the past twenty five years,…

  • ‘Proposal To Erect Monuments’ by Kevin Higgins

      Proposal To Erect Monuments   In memory of poet, Frank Yammergob: a twenty foot likeness entrenched in bronze; the bits of old burger he kept in his beard left in for authenticity. Fastened to the dome of city hall giving his enemies the finger. Exact replicas atop every public building he paid not a…

  • ‘The Haircut’ by Kevin Higgins

    The Haircut   I had it imported from Ancient Egypt, installed upon my skull by JobBridge slaves grateful to be allowed touch a scalp as potentially valuable as mine.   I can smell opportunity at a thousand yards, and in the blink of a synthetic eyelash, I’m off sniffing its however questionable arse. I’m Hillary…

  • ‘When You Are Old’ by Kevin Higgins

    When You Are Old . after William Butler Yeats When you are old and bald and full of crap and sitting there in threadbare rags, reach across to your old bookcase for a dusty old copy of a girlie mag. Fondle it, then, a little sadly in your withered veiny hands. If you can manage…

  • ‘It Was For This’ by Kevin Higgins

    It Was For This     That Queen Maeve prepared for battle by angrily shaving her armpits with a razor   improvised from north Fermanagh shale. For this W.B. Yeats took all that   experimental Viagra, and waited for the consequences to grow. For this   Archbishop McQuaid rolled naked through fields of Lavender.  …

  • Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion by Kevin Higgins

    “Over 15,500 human remains incinerated to heat UK hospitals over 2-year-period.  #800babies #outrage @amnesty” Tweet by Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life Campaign Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion     We must stop giving it away for nothing –our greatest natural resource – the Department of Finance estimates Tallaght Hospital could heat itself entirely on foetuses…