Poem And Parody

The Lake Isle of Inishfree

By WB Yeats

I will arise and go now

And go to Inishfree

And a small cabin build there

Of clay and wattles made

Nine bean rows will I have there

A hive for the honey bee

And live alone in the bee loud glade

And I shall have some peace there

For peace comes dropping slow

Dropping from the veils of the morning

To where the cricket sings

There midnight's all a glimmer

And noon a purple glow

And evening full of the linnet's wings

I will arise and go now

For always night and day

I hear lake water lapping

With low sounds by the shore

Whether standing in the roadway

Or on the pavement grey

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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the lake isle of inish freebie

by James Healy

i will arise and go now

and go to Inis Everything Costs A Stack Of Cash

and a small drug gang build there

of skanks and skummers made

nine audi a4's will i have there

a safe house for growing hash

and live alone in the murder loud glade

and i will have some Triads there

and the IRA and the Russian Mafia, and Al Qaeda, and Nigerian gangstahs too

for mobsters come dropping low

dropping from the veils of morning

to where judge liberal gives them all get out of jail free cards

there midnight's all a glimmer

and noon a purple glow

and evening full of the audi a4 gang revving up their engines

i will arise and go now

for always night and day

i see drug scum using teenage militias

to sell their poisons to children in our schools

whether standing in the roadway

or on the pavement grey

they really have taken us for fools