james joyce sings "il mio tesoro"
Something to warm your back teeth
even if your shirt's making its presence felt,
some piece of calculated impertinence -
My theory about Hamlet can droop
till I get these divisions right,
I mean the way McCormack gets them:
che sol di stragi e morti
nunzio voglio tornar
The Peace of Fathers be with you
and all the browning photographs of Europe
Among the clean mountains the mad
are trained like roses on a trellis
pruned for love
My books are easier to write than read
and by God that's the proper division of labour
Nobody but me has produced literature
as great as music
(I make an exception
of the author of Hamlet)
Do I hear some ijjit asking about
Proust and Synge and Pound
and a lot of names
I think I saw on raisin packets?
I've got a lot more to offer than shit
Ottavio = Octavius = ottava = octave = octane
= Otto = Caesar = Tarka = rima = October
= Revolution = reviendra = render = Caesar
I never knew when to stop
A fine tenor voice
The peace of great art
If I'd been christened Stanislaus
I'd have claimed the throne of Poland.
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