Kevin FitzPatrick's tale of Two Cities

Two Irish-American poets who Dave Moore and I knew and worked with (Kevin FitzPatrick and Ethna McKiernan) used to give an annual St. Patrick's Day poetry reading in the Twin Cities, a tradition that was ended by their final illnesses and death a few years back. It's occured to me that I can carry on that tradition here, and so, here's a poem of Kevin's, and like a lot of his best poetry, it seems kind of off-hand (though with a dry sense of humor) -- until you stop and think about the parable point the poem's story is conveying. So it is with this poem about borders that might speak to American events this year. Kevin FitzPatrick's poetry is available though this web site: https://www.kevinfitzpatrickpoetry.com/ The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinaitons, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org