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From: "Jean R." <>
Subject: [Irish-in-UK] "She Mends An Ancient Wireless" -- Paul DURCAN (b.Dublin 1944)
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:49:38 -0800

SHE MENDS AN ANCIENT WIRELESS

You never claimed to be someone special;
Sometimes you said you had no special talent;
Yet I have seen you rear two dancing daughters
With care and patience and love unstinted;
Reading or telling stories, knitting gansies
And all the while holding down a job
In the teeming city, morning until dusk.
And in the house whenever anything went wrong
You were the one who fixed it without fuss;
The electricity switch which was neither on nor off,
The TV aerial forever falling out;
And now as I watch you mend an ancient wireless
>From my tiny perch I cry once more your praises
And call out your name across the great divide - Nessa.

-- Paul Durcan

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