Smithereens Press Chapbooks Taking the Oath by Tom French | Page 18

A Bible in Boyerstown
after Paddy Keely

They didn’t think
Mick Beggan was listening,
until they came to the map
in the old Bible in the kitchen
of the wandering
of the Chosen People in
the Sinai Desert under
Moses for forty years.
“I wondered myself
about those lot.
Where did they go to?
Or what were they at?
We marched from Cairo
to Jerusalem
in six weeks under Allenby
in nineteen-seventeen.”

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