Which Side Are You On, Boy?

The skull of Shane MacGowan haunts my sleep.

Octavio Paz is a Mexican who invented a new city made of words and bright shadows and a black sun.

In Paris Julio Cortazar imagined tigers roaming through the unused wings of colonial palaces.

In your heart you too are an expatriot. London Bridge is falling down...I am London Bridge.

Shane's songs are singing themselves. They are returning to Tipperary--commingled with grime and streecorner amphetimines.

The Catholics invaded. Protty Britain fought back...