IRISHMAN IN NEW YORK CITY


An Irishman,
walked onto a New York bookshop
with a love of a good fairy tale.

Indeed,
I love Wilde's The Selfish Giant
It's a pity he ended up in gaol.

I'm a Galway man,
but here, on this book barge,
I feel like the Flying Dutchman

Stories as tall
as the Statue of Liberty,
a beacon as mighty as the Hudson.

'On a tall column,
stood the statue of The Happy Prince,'
There's another humanitarian for ya.