Today is Groundhog Day and, as history
has it, James
Joyce‘s birthday.
FINNEGANS BASH
“Tell me now, then, is it your
shadow,
You’re seeking, Punxsutawney Phil?
If so, you’d best be looking
poorly,
Else we’re stuck with the full winter’s drill.
“Follow the modus op of that
slacker
Finnegan Seamus Patrick Dougherty
(Who thumbed his nose at enslavement to
duty)
And hoist a few at my birthday pougherty.
“There’s be shadows aplenty, I
promise you:
Stephen and Molly, both in accord
With Leopold Bloom — going to
Blazes;
I promise you, boyo, you won’t be boared.”
— Leon Freilich
