“I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn’t he?”
—Nora Joyce (James Joyce’s wife, on Molly Bloom’s sexy 60-page monologue at the end of Ulysses)
I was a Flower of the mountain no
when I put the rosemary in my hair like
the Calabrian girls used
or shall I wear a red no
and how he kissed me under
the wall and I thought well
as well why him when there’s another
and then I asked him with my eyes
to not ask again no
and then he asked me would I no
to say no my garlic blossom
and first I squeezed my hands around
his throat no
and pushed him away from me so
he could feel my breath all onions no
and his heart was going all vafanculo
and no I said no I won’t NO!