Poem
Nick Laird
ANNALS OF ALAN
ANNALS OF ALAN
ANNALS OF ALAN
My carrel on the eighth floor of lower Manhattan has a lotof graffiti devoted to Alan. Alan has the best weed.
Alan is a woman. The walrus is Alan. Do we still need Alan?
Alan I want to have your baby. Alan taped my nana.
Fuck Obama Alan for president.
Alan is Geraldo Rivera. The victory is Alan’s.
I hate being Alan. Alan is a dream most likely.
Who the heck is Alan? Alan is homosexy.
Alan is a social construct. I love Alan.
It all comes down to Alan. I am Alan.
Alan is over. we are all Alan. Remember when
there was no Alan? If I am so beautiful and if you love me so
much then spell my fucking name correctly –
ALLEN. No, it’s Allan. No, it’s Alain.
Alain, Alain, t’es beau et je t’aime.
© 2012, Nick Laird
From: Go Giants
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
In Go Giants each sentence is presented in a different font to emphasise the graffiti feel. This website reproduction is an approximation of that style.
From: Go Giants
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Nick Laird
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1975)
Nick Laird is one of a new generation of poets – including Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Sineád Morrissey, and others – who are redefining Northern Irish poetry for the post-Troubles era, while drawing on a raft of influences including Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Michael Donaghy, Louis MacNeice and others.
Laird's poems are elegant, economical, concerned with language and form, and utterly unse...
Laird's poems are elegant, economical, concerned with language and form, and utterly unse...
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ANNALS OF ALAN
My carrel on the eighth floor of lower Manhattan has a lotof graffiti devoted to Alan. Alan has the best weed.
Alan is a woman. The walrus is Alan. Do we still need Alan?
Alan I want to have your baby. Alan taped my nana.
Fuck Obama Alan for president.
Alan is Geraldo Rivera. The victory is Alan’s.
I hate being Alan. Alan is a dream most likely.
Who the heck is Alan? Alan is homosexy.
Alan is a social construct. I love Alan.
It all comes down to Alan. I am Alan.
Alan is over. we are all Alan. Remember when
there was no Alan? If I am so beautiful and if you love me so
much then spell my fucking name correctly –
ALLEN. No, it’s Allan. No, it’s Alain.
Alain, Alain, t’es beau et je t’aime.
From: Go Giants
In Go Giants each sentence is presented in a different font to emphasise the graffiti feel. This website reproduction is an approximation of that style.
ANNALS OF ALAN
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