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Gerard McKeown

The Ultra Cool Gerard - Chloe Poems

About Me

The current holder of the Belfast Performance Poetry Cup and Ulster performance poetry champion, member of the BelfastPoets and the Irish Performance Poetry Team. Published in a number of top writing magazines including Fire , Fuselit , Black Mountain Review, and Citizen 32 .
Has supported top writers such as Stewart Home and John Cooper Clarke.

THE ONE WHERE ME AND VIOLENT BOB GET GIRLFRIENDS

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/15/2007
Band Website: gerardmckeown.com
Band Members: Gerard McKeown (Words and Vocals), Peace to da Streets (rapping), Homeboi Simes (sycophancy), Cunthooks (spoons), Fuckatrust (Washboard), Violent Bob (violence), My Girlfriend who looks like Rachel Bilson who plays summer in The OC (my muse and her sweetness).
Your Bathroom - An Apology
Influences: John Berryman, Tom Leonard, Dylan Thomas, Stewart Home, Morrisey, 50 Cent.Sometimes I say a prayer to the ghost of John Lennon and the words just appear on the page. I'm waiting for Pete Doherty to die, not so I can do the same, but so I can go and kick down his headstone and put the video on youtube.
Sounds Like: a nice man.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Jen ai marre

So I've moved into my new gaff and there's a telly in the livingroom (unless you're the TV man, in which case fuck off and stop reading my blogs). So come Saturday I'm sitting at home all hungover, an...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:09:00 PST

They are not long the weeping and the laughter

Sitting in work and watching a wasp crawl up and  down the window. Everytime I look away and look back I take a moment to find it and worry that it may have flown to somewhere I can't immediately...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:45:00 PST

Getting off, getting on, will they ever go downstairs...

So yeah, now I've moved house and I've changed job and it's all a bit wierd, because it's change, but wierd in a good way. Anyway I'm reading sherlock holmes at the moment because it's always somethin...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:59:00 PST

Poem about Cool

Gimme a shot of your lollipop,I need something sweet and it sure hit's the spotIt looks so fine and tasty you shouldn't keep it all to yourselfbums are for fuckin' so share them with somebody else.I c...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:33:00 PST

Its perfectly fine to sleep in a chair from monday til saturday

So yeah, quit my job last night and now it's very safe to say that while we were expected to send seven emails an hour it was goiod going if I sent more than that a day. So if you were waiting for a r...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:10:00 PST

Add a couplet

Okay so here's the first couplet, add one to it, then the next poster adds on to yours, try not to change your theme too much from the previous couplet. Yeah dig? Go for it.Fizzy girls pop when the ro...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

I throw the dice I holla gettem girls, daddy needs new shoes

I've a new JOB!!!! No more SLA! No more Bun Day! I'm going to work in a library! Me! Surrounded by books all day! Talking shit to people about books all day! Slagging off Jeffery Archer! Extolling Pat...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:38:00 PST

Let me sleep and dream of sheep

    So anyways I'm sitting in work and I shouldn't be on this cause we ain't allowed, but as you are all quite aware I'm a little bit braver than most and often throw caution to the win...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:10:00 PST

You left the state without me, shows how much you care about me

So anyway, last Thursday myself and Mr. Brian Bailey went up to Derry to partake in two performance poetry events in the same evening. The first, Poetry Please at Derry Central Library. This was prett...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:48:00 PST

Adventures in Pubs In Belfast

I was in the Garrick bar the other night, now the Garrick is, for me, one of those pubs I go to once in a blue moon, that said it's a nice wee bar and the DJ was playing some funky tunes. WHich brings...
Posted by Gerard McKeown on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:53:00 PST