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Passing Certain Estates

On the night that they announce his death Those of us who live in the homes he built Will gather outside the gates of his mansion. We will carry his oak cofn on our shoulders In a silent procession through every estate Where he ignored bylaws, left roads incomplete. We shall dig a grave to half its proper depth And lower his casket as far as it will t, wearing to return soon and nish the task. His cofn shall be left jutting out on a slope, And on the subsiding headstone will be writ: Death has no short cuts, no sharp practices, I lie as I left you, betrayed by empty promises. - Dermot Bolger

From County Lives, a sequence of poems by Dermot Bolger, primarily in the voices of commuters undertaking everyday journeys across South Dublin County. Commissioned by South Dublin County Council through In Context 3 and funded under the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Governments Per Cent for Art Scheme, these poems are being displayed in twelve locations across the County between Sept 2007 and Sept 2008. Their texts can be downloaded at www.incontext.southdublin.ie where comments may also be left for the author. Between the January 1st and March 30th 2008, people who live or work in South Dublin County are invited to submit to the author, via this website, up to three original poems that reect some aspect of their lives within the county. In September 2008, the full text of County Lives will be published, consisting of Dermot Bolgers original sequence interlinked with a representative cross section of submitted poems by other authors. Designed and produced by Yellowstone Communications Design 670 4200.

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