I have in my family tree

only one person in five hundred years

who was born in Ireland, technically that makes me one

in five hundred and twelfth of the Emerald Isle.

Even then it was by default as he was born at his mother’s insistence

as she could no longer hold on to the pull of the umbilical cord

and would kill any man

with a face of black thunder who tried

to stop her getting rid

of her impetuous fairy like Cornish-Scottish hybrid load

and to history, who knows,