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ROGUE ROUGH EDITS - THE GARBAGE BIN I WRITE FROM

Taxi Driver - THROUGH GENERATIONSTaxi Driver -In the mid-1970s New York was a detested city of broken glass and rising steam, already drained of the optimism the previous decade had promised. The coun ........

WORLD CUP DERANGEMENT FERVOUR Yes ! Kevob

In Irregularity I came upon a football game, writing down, past, redundant road, on the backstreets of Dublin, near Cabra. In the interludes, little sounds and harps had given out peculiar motifs; t ........

Seagulls In A Dewy Ditch Patch

In irregularity I came upon a football game; it was on the backstreets of Dublin near Cabra years ago; yet the same feeling returned tonight while the World Cup moved across the vast American contin ........

Balbriggan Radio

This really is the town of the Seagulls’ shires. They caw harshly across the dark, squalling through the night as I make my way in. As they squawk, I write. I came down late, in my so-called wisdom – ........

A Review Of Days

Days running around doing publicity for the book. A bookend of sorts. I’m out putting flyers up in odd little spots I’ve found; tucked-away noticeboards, quiet corners, places most people ignore. Th ........

A Dead Man’s Tail

This here is the first rough draft that started the book "Seagulls Shadows on Slantyrocky”. I wrote it from a place of whispers of death, a sight I saw brewing. After he died, I came back to here t ........

BOOK REVIEW

“THE LOVED ONE” by Evelyn WaughReviewed by kevin foyThis is such a good book i’m not going to give any of the it away. I want you to enter it childlike, experience those first few pages of awkward fum ........

Some of my drama lately - oi oi oi -

Emails from the ether.Hello Kevin,Hope all is good just a little heads up. The women from Lidl Tamara, doesn’t appreciate you communicating with her as she finds it creepy as your an older man. So it ........

BLOOMSDAY REVIEW of MY ULYSSES STORY

SYPMHONY OF KITCHEN A Symphony indeed — and what a raw, rolling, bumptious one.I just walked every mile of that May 2, 2017 with you, Kevob. From the forced signing-on at the welfare office to the ........

Letters to Hannah a sister

Here ye go, some brotherly story - The Gimp, as you called him. The perfect word, so Whelan. There it is all that talent; that I haven’t ever had. I would word patterns of pages to describe him ........

A nice email for a local heritage group

A nice email for a local heritage group about my book. Its succinct. Like I details in minutes. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson was genius at it. Probably the last great american writer. The st ........

Alive Is this Love Letter

Alive Is this Love Letter - To Her Mousesy Blonde. The unknown creature. It’s my error, a pure quagmire of words, ain’t it? Suffice to say I drift away, peeling the day back layer by layer, watch ........

I’m getting more open to AI

I’m getting more open to AI; and its purpose. I have to live with the reality we're in. The doubts I’m having is about becoming too content rich, but there is no refrain from that, we cannot reach ........

The Timespan 1909-2019

Greta Thunberg is making a lot news lately. She seems to be under a delusion about inter generational time gaps. As if the difference of 30 years between one generation and the next is significant. ........

THE BEGIN Of Herr BLOG

My weird book blurb. The audacious creature. Her queerness and everything is here. Was it a bad idea, I don’t know. A blog is an unusual space, I can run with it fast and make a picture that lasts o ........

PI’m The Shame of the Shoe

Maybe I should stop right there. A dead end of the word in the title in itself. I could escape to the yearning. Yesterday or tomorrow, and settle. Onto in the sun. The suite of the world transfixes ........