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From Martin Mc Guinness to Gerry Adams:


Have you ever seen
a Manhattan sunset
....

Gloriously crimson
it was
Blackening
Awesome
Skyscrapers

....

Far Away

From Bloody
Foreland.

From one dark lord to another I suppose. The entirety of the poem, can be found in a book by Gerry Adams, called An Irish Voice. The Quest for peace. He claims Martin Mc Guinness sent it to him by postcard. In the poem, Mc Guinness attempts to propagate the myth of the Irish revolutionary poet in harmony with nature, but you don't have to be a pop psychologist to detect an almost vampiric craving for blood, as Mc Guinness, ironically enough, flies in over New York in September 1995. Nevertheless it's hardly surprising, that this black and crimson coagulating blood shadow, forms such a dominant motif, given the role Mc Guinness has played in an organisation responsible for the deaths of 1800 people. That guilt is absent should not surprise us either, Mc Guinness is no Macbeth; in fact, in retrospect, the poem is almost a portent, of terrorists flying towards the twin towers, a few Septembers later, eager to suck the necks of skyscrapers.