Epic

I have lived in important places,

When great events were decided, who

That half a rood of rock, a no-man's

Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.

I heard the Duffys shouting "Damn your soul!"And old

Cabe stripped to the waist,

Step the plot defying blue cast-steel -"Here is the march along these iron stones."That was the year of the Munich bother.

Was more important?

I

To lose my faith in Ballyrush and

Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.

He said:

I made the Iliad from suchA local row.

Gods make their own importance.