THE HAUNTED INN My memory's a haunted inn Where ghosts foregather night and day, For arguments I didn't win And clever things I failed to say. I tell them tales; I tell them news; They share my jokes; they share my fears; I have important interviews With friends who have been dead for years. I keep the inn 'til closing time And then we all part company. To get back home they have to climb The mountains of Eternity. There is one thing that could go wrong, Some night they may take me along. -- Warren O'CONNELL "Extended Wings 4, " Rathmines Writers (Swan Press 1998)