“Who? the professor said, turning. They’re gone round to the Oval for a drink. Paddy Hooper is there with Jack Hall. Came over last night.” – Ulysses, James Joyce
In a Pint Glass of the Oval Bar
The chocolate cascade of the nation’s libation:
The miracle of transubstantiation.
Stay tuned for more beatific beer reviews.
Same divine time, same deified channel.
“Shapely goddesses…Can see them library museum standing in the round hall, naked goddesses. Aids to digestion…And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind…They have no. Never looked. I’ll look today.” – Leopold Bloom
Today’s matinee features three original three-liners:
A Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem, an Ezraku, and a truly Terrible Tercet.
What subject matter could possibly inspire such fecundity?
Today’s Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem -
Bloom’s goals:
Leisurely strolls,
Goddesses’ bungholes.
Today’s Ezraku -
In a Museum of Kildare Street
The boon of Bloom’s sniffing snoot:
Venus’ white plaster poop chute.
Today’s Terrible Tercet -
Malachi Mulligan’s hilarious and heinous.
He warns Stephen of Bloom’s gayness.
Did Bloom ever locate that statue’s anus?
Stay tuned for more callipygian catastrophes.
Same gluteus time, same maximus channel.
“Get a light snack in Davy Byrne’s. Stopgap. Keep me going.”
– Leopold Bloom, Ulysses by James Joyce
I wanted to “Make it new” by serving up an original Ezraku. But I botched the recipe and defaulted to my home-cooked Rust Belt roots. The affinities of Dublin and her future sister city Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are many. But that’s a whole other podcast. We cooked up something in the spirit of the Pittsburgh Steeler’s Terrible Towel, long may she wave.
The Terrible Tercet lacks all conviction, verblessness, dual adjectives, abrupt imagistic juxtaposition, but its full of passionate intensity. And for all those Lambert’s Lunatics out there ancient enough to remember the infamous Green Weenie, sit tight and save room for dessert.
Davy Byrne’s Gorgonzola.
That black stuff’s not Coca-Cola,
It’ll put hair on your areola.
Stay tuned for more Steelers/Ulysses fusion.
Same oxymoronic time, same omnimoronic channel.