Chasing Kerbs

Red brick in the suburbs, white horse on the wall,

Eyetalian marbles in the City Hall:

O stranger from England, why stand so aghast?

May the Lord in His mercy be kind to Belfast *

*Ballard to a Traditional Refrain by Maurice Craig lifted from Brendan Behan’s Island 1963

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