Fringe Dwellers By Name Poem by Francis Duggan

They live in every city and every village and town
The people who are strangers even to local renown
known as fringe dwellers even in their locality only to few known
They are never referred to as those of our own
They are not members of any local or community club
And are seldom seen at the town's local pub
They live in their own way and do their own thing
And of their praises you never hear anyone sing
Fringe dwellers by nature and fringe dwellers by name
They never feel any desire for wealth and for fame
They are different to most others of them one can say
Quite different to the tribal type in every way
They feel no desire for wealth and renown
And they will always be outsiders even on their side of the town.