Unlike Other Boys: Poems by Alan Ireland.



    The Magpie

    Of all the birds, both foul and fair,
    You stubbornly refused to wear

    Full mourning at the Crucifixion,
    And were cursed with this affliction:

    Piebald broods of raucous young,
    The devil's laugh on every tongue.




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