Thursday, December 10, 2015

Lisdoonvarna

From the Wall Street Journal:  This year, an estimated 60,000 singles descended on Lisdoonvarna, Ireland, for some part of the town’s matchmaking festival, a six-week-long extravaganza of music and dance for hopeful romantics. Matchmaking has become a cottage industry for the town of some 700 residents, which gets an annual boost from those looking for love.
In Lisdoonvarna there resides
a matchmaker for grooms and brides.
The lonely and the amorous
won't find his methods glamorous.
No love potions or charms has he;
Tis strictly personality.
But I'll not travel to his town,
since all my passions have cooled down.
I'll leave the matrimonial field
to fools whose hearts can still be peeled. 

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