Steve Denehan

So this is My Father Is Dead.

Autumn walking and the world is red and yellow and fire orange and I am walking because there is nothing else that I can do or want to do and people do not notice me because I am trying my very best to be invisible and it is working and there is a week-long dead badger on the side of the road and a waltzing balloon tied to the gate of a house and I am hungry but I do not want to eat and you are really gone and I miss you and the clouds are ghosts and you are everywhere.

That's that.

Got through it?

Boom.

Yeah, yeah.

There you go, yeah.

What do you think of Michael D. Higgins' poetry?

I don't, look, I... No, you don't have to answer it.

Yeah, I mean, I don't really like poetry in general.

On that bombshell.

On that bombshell.

Poet Steve Dennett, thanks very much for your time.

Oh, no, thanks a lot, Ray.

Cheers, thank you very much.

Bring on the pizza.

Bring on, yeah, pizza time, yeah.