Photo; Liam Downes
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Our Shops were never so clean
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Stag employees trip to Germany with Dan Moloney T.D.
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Tralee clowns, Ronaldo and Giogo Fanzini meet Michael Lynch during Listowel Writers’ Week a few years ago
The Clown
by John Fitzgerald
John has another circus themed poem for us today.
The Clown
Who is this one I call the clown,
Comes in and out of every town?
You take a child of tender years,
Fill with laughter, touch with tears.
You live inside a sawdust ring,
A peg on which the circus clings;
A whited face, a button nose,
What is beneath, who is to know.
A comic look of tragedy?
A tragic look of comedy?
Wise enough to know the fool,
Kind enough to not be cruel;
A mask that ever hides your face,
A shining light, a saving grace?
Who is this one I call the clown,
Comes in and out of every town?
Who is this one, what is your role,
When touching hearts, you touch the soul?
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A Spiral Staircase
That which we call a spiral staircase is not actually a spiral at all. It is helical. A spitral is two dimensional, a helix is three dimensional.
At a rough estimate, 10% of the population are left handed solo called spiral staircases were usually designed to favour right handed so that a deciding swordsman could fight off right handed attackers. Listowel castle has such a staircase.
There is a chateau in the Loire valley in France which has a double helix staircase so that people coming down dont bump into people going up. Sounds like good sense to me.
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A Covid Listowel Limerick
During Lockdown diversions we seek,
Of Zoom and of Facetime they speak.
On Liveline, a prude, while Trump talks of Jeyes Fluid.
And worse, no Listowel Writers’ Week
Mattie Lennon.
