Excerpt from Bricriu's Feast: A Comedy in Three Acts, With an Epilogue
For a feast or a fight or a girl or a game. He's beneath my contempt, And from mercy exempt But I don't think I'd put him to death all the same.
He thinks that a grin Will atone for his sin And an off-hand apology cover his shame. But although I detest All his tricks, like the pest I don't think I'd put him to death all the same.
This waster of time, I'd rack him with rime, With metre his memory mangle and maim. His tomb I'd defile With an epitaph Vile, But I don't think I'd put him to death all the same.
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Eimar O'Duffy way an Irish satirist, poet, playwright, and novelist, and was the author of the Cuanduine trilogy and Life and Money. Frances Hutchinson is a research fellow at the department of social and international studies at the University of Bradford and is the author of The Political Economy of Social Credit Guild Socialism, The Politics of Money, and What Everybody Really Wants to Know About Money.
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