' ' ' ' Ah Where Are The Newspapers Of Yesterday?

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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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We chased
yesterday’s news

all over
the grass

laughed
as the old newspapers

ran this
way & that

“kites
without strings”

We pretended them.

Just add wind
& presto...fun!

We were easily pleased.

Later, when the wind
was having a rest

& the papers
lay exhausted

panting at our feet

we decided
to play

“blankets”

tucking ourselves
up in
yesterday’s news.

I had the soccer section
all over me.

You had taken
all the headlines.

We falling
asleep hand in hand.

You, my first girlfriend.
I, your first boyfriend.

Dónall Dempsey

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Onelia Avelar 03 July 2009

I have read once, that there is nothing older than the newspaper from yesterday :) , so that I think it is a very good metaphor for the past, which seems to be close but it is already far away - only images and words left to fade....

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