The real Seamus Heaney

jmcnamara on 2003-09-03T10:19:00

So Seamus Heaney likes Eminem.

Here's one for the po'3 homies.

Ted Hughes don't gotta cuss in his poems to sell his books;
well I do, so bog him and bog you too!
You think I give a damn about a Noble?
Half of you critics don't even read me, let alone 'stand me.

I'm Shem Heaney, yes I'm the real Heaney
All you other Sham Heaneys are just imitating
So won't the real Shem Heaney please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

I'm sick of you little girl and boy poets,
all you do is annoy me
so I have been sent here to destroy you
And there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a bog like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing but not quite me!

I'm Shem Heaney, yes I'm the real Heaney
All you other Sham Heaneys are just imitating
So won't the real Shem Heaney please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?