![]() ![]() Whenever I speak, the professors say, Do I detect an Irish brogue? All Americans say that, and then tell you their parents came from Sligo. I enroll at New York University and I'm in heaven, except I have to work nights at warehouses. If the people in Limerick could see me pushing my food away, they'd say I was gone mad entirely.īack in New York I work at the docks and dream of going to college like the girls on the subway who are such an occasion of sin. They give us goulash next to the ovens while we wait. The furthest I get is Bavaria, where I'm in charge of taking laundry to Dachau. I like the hamburgers and meringue pie for the hunger, but I don't like the way Americans say, What did you people ever do besides drink? There's a letter from the Government that says, Greetings, I'm to join the army to fight what they call goddam chinks and gooks in Korea. ![]() There are Irish, Greeks, Italians and Puerto Ricans everywhere. ![]() An Irish priest with a fondness for the martinis and for fondling boys just off the boat takes me to the Democratic Party who fix me up a job at a hotel. But just off the boat, 19 with dead white skin and two scabby eyes like piss holes in the snow, I've nowhere to go. New York was the city of my dreams, where I'd have the golden tan, the dazzling teeth. That's what my mother Angela would say when I was a child in Limerick and a dream came true. ![]()
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