Miracles Become Monsters
()
About this ebook
“‘Send me your miracles and your monsters. Send me your plucked-out eyes and the pungent perfume of your spent loins. Hold me in the jaws of your slavering mouse…’ We look at the same words and see such different things, but within this collection we see the same intricate ideas Kirwan is known for, the same dark passion
Read more from Dominic Kirwan
Spreading the Bad Word Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Holy Babble Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPut a Smile On That Face Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mouth in the Sky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhere Words Go When They Die Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Miracles Become Monsters
Related ebooks
Moments From Within Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYink & Yank Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Aria in Venice: The Musical Interlude Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFragments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Green Sun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLockdown Poetry: Life With Poetry, #6 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaments of the Madman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Body. No Apology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChasing The Wind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Shadows of Eden Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs the Ghosts Ripped and Tore Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOversharing: A Collection of Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Romance Game Played and Lost: A Collection of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMental Health and Me 2015 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrowing Pains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTomorrow's Gone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoyal Blue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLET ME OUT: A Collection of Confessions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhoenix Ablaze Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndexical Elegies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Child Soldiers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen I Let My Hair Down It Tangles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVoices Verses Vices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlimmer on the Glass Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfflatus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI'm NOT Okay, Thanks for Asking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExiled from Zion: Confusion and Dim Wisdom Through the Non-Lit Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Classic Retreat of Anarchy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Portion of the Eternal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Miracles Become Monsters
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Miracles Become Monsters - Dominic Kirwan
Miracles Become Monsters
Dominic Kirwan
Ginninderra PressMiracles Become Monsters
ISBN 978 1 76041 621 8
Copyright © text Dominic Kirwan 2018
Cover painting: Zipper De Do Da, an original work by Dominic Kirwan
All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.
First published 2018 by
Ginninderra Press
PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide SA 5015
www.ginninderrapress.com.au
Contents
Miracles
Monsters
A gargantuan thank you to my two favourite poets:
Leonie Halstrom and Peter Gate. You are two of the most original writers I have ever had the pleasure to call friends. The boundless creativity and beautiful fearlessness of both of you, and the very original approaches you have to your poetry leave me gobsmacked and inspired every time we meet up.
A special thank you to my friends Andrew Coote and Sally Harbison. You both read every line I write. Your honest feedback is tempered with kindness, vigorous intelligence and heart. You help me to be a better writer.
Thank you to my wonderful sister Bridget Kirwan for her tireless creative assistance with the cover.
So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
TNT – Bon Scott (1946–1980)
I’ve got your picture, I've got your picture
I’d like a million of them all round my cell
I want a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you
No wonder it’s dark
The Vapors (1980)
Miracles
Steps
The First Step
Is to admit that you don’t have a problem
Everyone else does
The Second Step
Is to wash your hands of everyone you love
And send them to the gallows
The Third Step
Is to steal a Maserati
And get the fuck out of town
It doesn’t matter where you’re going
Just drive
The Fourth Step
Is to hold up a bank
And then burn all their money
The system is corrupted
And you’re here to save the day
The Fifth Step
Is to break into a brothel
And free the natives
Release them back into the wild
Where they belong
The Sixth Step
Is to attend confession
Admit to the first five steps
And then strangle the priest
With your favourite set of rosary beads
Choke him like a Catholic cock
Caught crowing
Snuff out the light at the end of his tunnel
For promising you
Unattainable redemption
The Seventh Step
Is to drink yourself under the table
And stay there
Just so you’ll have somewhere nice to sleep
In the morning
When they close up the bar
The Eighth Step
Is to deliberately lose at poker
And give a naïve gambler
Some schmuck who has never won before
The keys to your stolen car
The Ninth Step
Is to bind and gag a bookstore clerk
And steal all of their Bibles
You’ll need them to get into Heaven
When everything goes wrong
The Tenth Step
Is to look yourself in the eye
And try to recognise the stranger
Threaten your reflection with violence
If you have to
Call the police
Report your doppelganger
Identity theft is a serious crime
And you can always deal
With the malfunctioning mirror
Later
The Eleventh Step
Is to break up with yourself
Admit it
The relationship was going nowhere
You should at least agree
To see other people
And then tightly close your eyes
The Twelfth Step
Is to hide
If you’re reported missing
People will come looking for you eventually
It’s a sign of how much they care
Make sure it’s somewhere dark but obvious
You don’t want to die of neglect
In the spotlight
With a bottle in your hand
You want to be lost