Old Poem at The Stinging Fly

Here is an old poem of mine, “Beautiful People,” published in The Stinging Fly in 2000, then in my collection Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007). I believe I wrote this in 1999 or so, during the time of the Galway Film Fleadh, to an old friend. Posting it now, as The Stinging Fly has just electronically archived their old issues...