Thursday, March 13, 2025

A Poem For Shane

When Shane Macgowan dies you write a poem 
What else is there to do? 
Listening to the Pogues and crying while driving 
I imagine the force that kept his heart pumping blood 
despite a lifetime of poisoning 
I imagine it as a star exploding 
It's shards lodging in the chests of poets the world over 
Infecting us 
Making us dance and sing 
driving us to put our tears and struggles and anger into rhythm and rhyme and verse 
to sing the pricks and pigs back into whatever hell they climbed out of 
and raise our voices 
as we raise our glasses 
and sing a song for Shane

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