Kilcuan east

                                                                                    West cork

                                                                                     Co. cork

Dear Mr. O’Grady

     I wish to congratulate you on being elected a T.D. recently. I know you urged the completion of the public toilets in Kilcuan, I am aware, as you are our public representative you put a lot of pressure on the local councilors to make sure the job was finished within the specified time limit.  It is very welcome in the village as the old premises was condemned five years ago and the tourists and some locals who wanted to avail of the facility found they were homeless. It was a common sight to see some people relieving themselves at Black Place field, as the local pub was closed until eight thirty in the evening, and even then, many were shy of availing of the toilets there.

I am a bachelor, seventy five years of age myself, I walk to the village daily and was delighted to see the finished premises yesterday when I went for my shopping and to collect my pension, but was so disappointed to see the bright pink colour on the wall of the new toilets. I will find it extremely difficult to be seen going in there especially when I heard someone saying, the ladies will love it. I beg of you to order the local councilors to change it before the official opening next week.

I saw your mother recently, she looks very good, and she only after her hip operation two weeks ago.

  Hope you change colour

                                                                                 Dail Eireann

                                                                                 Government Buildings

                                                                                 Dublin 1

Dear Frosty,

I hope you don’t mind me calling you that name, I don’t know your proper name. I’m sorry to inform you the pink colour will remain on the walls of the public toilets in Kilcuan, but I would like to be the first to inform you, you are chosen to officially open them on Wednesday next and I have been in contact with the local councilors to insist on a blue ribbon for you to cut at the ceremony.

Sincerely

                                                                                    Kilcuan East

                                                                                    West Cork

Dear Mr. O’Grady

My proper name is Frosty, and I will be delighted to open the toilets on Wednesday, the pink colour is no longer my main moan, I have a far more serious issue now, but I don’t want to burden you anymore I have written to a colleague of yours regarding it

Frosty.

P.S. I will wear a pink shirt on Wednesday I am so honoured.

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At The Circle’s End

 

An end is nigh death ‘tis called

The great debate an expiry or a start?

Some go young more are old

A vicious circle

A finale to life

No, a beginning it has to be.

 

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The meme wars

 

I had a nine fifteen appointment

  The waiting room full of viruses

    Some had the flu

      Jess the common cold

Moll an infection no one wanted

  There for the latest cure

    To be rid of the memes

      They were tormenting my mind always

I was having no more

  A cure - a once off antibiotic

    To end the contagion - no more earworms

      The register to be deleted in my brain

The word cool on that inventory

  Viruses of the wits a terrible thing

      Destroying the world

        Was it ending or beginning?

 

 

 

 

Each of the above pieces are © Carmel Walsh 2007