Train From Tyrone

The Train from Tyrone

i never bothered speaking
politics in my Irish neighborhood
they say in the mother tongue
it is unwise to evoke
baseball, god & parentage
do not make direct eye contact
as any man in exile
will tell you to disclaim the past
be appropriate to your geography
never utter a language you lost
what happens to a genetic code deferred
does it forget itself
like a car bomb
or does it explode?