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November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Untitled (Bonus track)

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Untitled (Bonus track)

Faces align resulting a coupling the marriage of which is spoken of still in the skeleton mills where the naked hand out cigarettes to the mad who then pick up their phones and ask for help for to speak

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

On Michael Street 

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
On Michael Street 

On Michael street we convalesce

The neighbours speaking Polish do most of the talking

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Don’t speak ill of the Dead

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Don’t speak ill of the Dead

Wielding words like butchers knives into the room I held you though you patronised and spoke ill of the dead in my arms the tundra thawed the table rocked a generation was reborn a well earned rest the mocking ceased.

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

National Gallery Pop

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
National Gallery Pop

My arms folded in silent contemplation oblivious to the throng immersed in my own inner song you felt you could rewrite history when next of all you walk straight into a lamppost it's so so good to be alive!

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Ears are Prickd

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Ears are Prickd

Freddie was a window cleaner studying philosophy on the side

Playing in a local band, his girlfriend was having their first child.

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Back to the Pavement

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Back to the Pavement

I'm going back to the pavement back to the pavement back to the pavement where I belong back to the pavement back to pavement a paradox in which a right equals wrong

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Andy Wilson

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Andy Wilson

We went down to Patrick street to see what we might sow with a bad craving for coffee and a hankering for a scone when who should we see but Any Wilson playing his guitar with bells beneath his feet

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Waiting room

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Waiting room

I'll offer you respite from womanhood and bring an end to your frustrations

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Raving towards Byzantium

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Raving towards Byzantium

There's eating and drinking in good talk says one to the other but do not forsake what was passed from your sister me brother St Aloysius is banging his head on the door while his Queen of Sheba is inside asleep on the floor.

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

God is a Magpie

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
God is a Magpie

With a wish tied to each wrist

The grown up child in me exists

When bearded man and boy permit

I wish I was a wish I was a wish I was away

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude

Miracles

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
Miracles

Fuchsia I hear the public toilets are closed you make faces when you clean the sand out from between your toes boxing crosses boundaries so does fighting with your shadow

November 17, 2022
Karol Ryan
Crude
April 15, 2022
Rubyworks

Good Friday

April 15, 2022
Rubyworks
Good Friday

The cock cried crow fetch your sleeping bag let's go, we are off to happy valley where the people are all sad.

April 15, 2022
Rubyworks
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Grogan's Druid

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Grogan’s druid wears Dunlop runners He’s gone under cover for the day that’s in it

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Sentimental Dole

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
Sentimental Dole

There’s a foe living among us masquerading as a friend When you stare into the flashlights you must look to comprehend

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Me, Myself and Lunacy

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Becalmed in the wake of the latest storm, swollen blue skies Not long before in a cardboard box I refused to die

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

The Boarding House

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
The Boarding House

I entered a room filled with elbows and knees A lantern was hanging by a surrealist painting

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

The Grave of Johnny Filth

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
The Grave of Johnny Filth

A patchwork of dreams came and went Interwoven with juxtapositions


January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Hopeful Dystopia

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Where is your Valerie from the gallery? Where is your Francis, Neil & Joan?


January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Peter O’Toole’s Drinking Stories

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
Peter O’Toole’s Drinking Stories

In the past when I knew less than I know now, which isn’t much I slept inside Peter O’Toole’s drinking stories


January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then

Philomena

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
Philomena

Brief erroneous love

Sanctimonious Scum

The doornails are dead

January 10, 2022
Rubyworks
What Then
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