Award winning Irish writer. Literary thoughts and literary advice. Author of The Eskimo in the Net (shortlisted for The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award) and Sightings of Bono (adapted for film featuring Bono (U2). Poetry (Digging My Own Grave 2nd place in Patrick Kavanagh Award), Fiction. Creative Writing instructor and Mentor.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Townes Was A Ghost
He was going into the DTs in the hospital. They took him out of the hospital so he could drink. They had to do it. He wouldn't have even had a chance if they had left him in there. They didn't know he was going away. They had tried to dry him out years before and it almost done him in. They were warned never to try and dry him out again or let him go without booze. That sounds strange but you can really take addiction that far. Townes was a ghost. Even when he was young he was a ghost. A beauty
In the matter regarding Mary. The question is not Will she still be mine?
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Dead Beat agrees with you Billie, and the answer is....
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