Thousands gather to celebrate the Yes result in the Marriage Equality Referendum in Dublin Castle Courtyard on May 23, 2015
Kevin writes:
My poem in response to yesterday evening’s episode of [RTÉ One’s] Reeling In The Years, which covered 2015. I wrote the poem below in the immediate aftermath of the (overwhelming) passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in that year.
A Day of Just Yes
Word is:
the system of storms
building mid-Atlantic has now
obligingly cancelled itself out;
all remaining car accidents
have been put off until tomorrow;
no further bankruptcy notices
will come into existence
until at least Monday,
as there’s no one home
to open the envelopes;
the shadow on your mother’s
right lung will not be detectable
on an x-ray until next Wednesday
week at the earliest;
elected representatives
are permitted, for one day only,
to walk the streets openly
shaking peoples’ hands
without anyone wanting
to lock them in the boot
of an ancient Ford Escort
to think about what they’ve done
and what they’ve failed to do;
commentators from across
the ideological spectrum agree,
even Auntie Bridie’s sciatica
is better than it was
this time last week;
the other side’s slogans are,
this morning, flags
madly cheering
your victory;
the roof top crows for once
maintain a dignified silence
and appear to be enjoying
this sunshine,
which the old lady in the paper shop
says is promised
to last.
Kevin Higgins
23-5-15
Reeling in the Years : 2015 (RTÉ)
Honestly, one of the few times I felt proud to be Irish.
Kevin’s poetry reminds me of the emperor’s new clothes
Most normal people don’t want to bundle politicians into the boots of Ford Escorts, even if they do disagree with their policies.
just into the sea :)
And at the same time we all voted in the Gender Recognition act which allowed people to have the state recognize their “preferred gender” and I’d say that 99% of voters didn’t know that this was even part of the ballot. They didn’t know because GRC’s were added two weeks before the Gay rights vote, very quietly and on the advice of the UK law firm Dentons who said to get GRC’s in on the back of popular legislation.
So even though “trans” has absolutely nothing to do with gay rights, (too many people still believe the trans is Gay 2.0, it’s not, in the vast majority of cases these are straight autogynephile males) the deception was complete.
Denton’s went on to publicly congratulate the TRA’s in Ireland for successfully deceiving the Irish people in the now famous “Dentons Documents”. Deception… the hallmark of “AGPtrans” rights everywhere.
LGBT.
Nope: LGB. The LGB Alliance. You know the ones the T’s have smeared like crazy to silence and howled in protest when the charity commission in the UK found every single smear to be empty and gave the LGB Alliance charity status. That one.
Try Boards.ie there’s a good thread there in the LGB section that shows when and where the T used the LGB’s from @ 2005 onwards.
Or you could listen to the interview of Fred Sargent on Youtube, you know the gay rights activist who was at the actual Stonewall riots and saw it all first hand, and now he’s seeing the T weave in their Lies about how it wasn’t gay men and women who started the Stonewall riot, it was a T woman of colour lol according to the T’s and because so many of the original Stonewall men and women died in the AIDS epidemic, the T’s lies are working. I told you that they are coming for the Gays first Nigel…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CirF3lBHL_o
It’s always been LGBT. That’s the way the acronym was coined. They have every right to criticise an organisation founded solely to exclude and attack them. But certainly, painting trans people as malevolent liars doesn’t make you transphobuic, I’m sure.
Noblelocks, can I ask, is there a specific reason that your language describing trans people is so caustic? What is so abhorrent about these people that you feel compelled to comment so aggressively on every thread where trans issues are discussed?
Serious question, by the way, because I don’t understand the hate.
Now that Ireland has marriage equality and we’ve repealed the 8th, the bigots have turned on trans people to vent their prejudices. LGB Alliance is a US conservative backed, astroturf hate group.
Can you produce the wording that we voted on?
What a fantastically passive-agressive bit of begrudgery.
The poem wasn’t that bad.
Actually, never mind, I don’t really want to be knocking the guy’s poetry any more, he’s just doing his thing, putting it out there, fair play.
Let’s not go too far…. Some are terrible :)
I don’t understand this poem. I genuinely don’t get it.
Don’t get too high on jubilation, we’re still up schits creek without a paddle seems to be the gist of it.
Lilly you have a gift :)
Kevin Higgins is that type of poet
To whom rhyme is anathma so it
is best to adjourn
while he hits Return
At random but tries not to show it
When Kevin gets on the LC curriculum, I’ll find fame and fortune doing poetry notes ;)
You could ask Fintan O’Toole to write a critical analysis.
Reminds me of when I was a teenager and used to bash out noise on my guitar and convinced myself it was music and/or art, Kevin has convinced himself his collection of snide observations somehow constitute poetry, thankfully I grew up, Kevin alas…