Conversation on an Irish Couch
So I was looking at the couch the other day and I noticed my sister wasn’t sitting on it.
Usually she appears there from time to time in the middle of the night but it occurred to me that it had been something like 3 days since her last appearance.
So I asked the mother.
-I haven’t noticed Sister The Younger on the couch lately. Has she been working later than late?
-She’s gone away to that place
-To what place?
-Buena Sera
-Buena Sera?
-Yes
-You don’t mean Buenos Aires?
-Yes that’s the place
-Buenos Aires?
-Yes
-In Argentina?
-One of those places, yes
-She’s in Argentina?
-Or maybe that Brazil place
-I thought I hadn’t seen her on the couch
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• Someone From Europe
• Irish Prison Interview With Philo
• An American Phone Call To An Irish Mother
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Bail ó Dhia ort, a Eolaí, agus uirthi
I, being a proofreader, am always on the lookout for “Buenos Aries” of the zodiac kind, as my employer has an oifig there. You wouldn’t believe how often it’s misspelled. Or maybe you would. Tá oifig eile againn i São Paulo. So, all bases covered (she wrote pre-”World” Series).
Slán
Kelly - Ominous, knowing that a proof reader is reading. Still, go raibh míle maith agat.