A Limerick (Triple-Barrelled) , 'The End Of 'Ulysses' Poem by Douglas Scotney
A Limerick (Triple-Barrelled) , 'The End Of 'Ulysses'
'Ulysses' is a buck of a ride
Wherever you get on inside.
The end is no canter
Molly's a ranter
Stopping she cannot abide.
She rants a long distance
To Gibraltar for instance.
She's trained hard for the meet.
You can't begrudge her her feat.
But then she pulls down her pants.
And rants, on the potty no less,
Raves about Poldy's largess,
Lists bucks she's had in the sack,
Likes a Bloom tongue in her crack.
We've had a buck of a ride by her 'Yes'.
Molly Bloom's 40 page soliloquy at the end of 'Ulysses' is completely un-punctuated, hence there is no 'stopping'.
She is pretending to be asleep, but thinking all the while, after her husband, Poldy, gets into bed at 2am. Her 'ranting' is silent.
Her last word and the last word in the book is 'Yes', her response to Poldy's proposal 16 years ago.
Their surname is Bloom. Poldy loves making new words out of it. I don't think he'd heard of the Australian lizard, the blue-tongue.
Thank you for the notes, it makes the poem more enjoyable. The succinct style of the triptych certainly conveys the data in a concentrated and intense manner.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/18/2024 1:03:20 PM # 1.0.0.1119
An amusing poem, full of insight.