Molly and the Unicorn
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the green alligators yes the humpy back camels yes
most especially and why should they be humpy and
not anybody else in this sorry little island i remember
back twelve or no thirteen years ago when we were
in the zoo i was licking toffee off blazes boylan's
but never mind that now and i saw chimpanzees
for the first time and i got all itchy and begod what
they were doing in public big happy smiles too and why 
wouldn't they and i'd smile too only maybe take the skin 
off the banana that wasn't the way it was when i was a girl
the occasional virgin the spanish boys used to call me
but i knew what they were singing about long-necked
geese and rats and cats funny how those words
rhyme some amadhán is probably going to put them in
a song some day to glorify irish immaturity yes the elephant 
too what's grey and comes in quarts he-he-he poldy never 
understood that joke spends too much time with his potato or 
whatever the hell he keeps in his pocket but the unicorn ah now
there's a beast i'd like to know more about great protrusion
willingly displayed and always surrounded by smiling maidens 
jayzus i'd smile too if that lad was in the neighborhood and too
bad about them missing the ark and all that rot if noah
was so smart why didn't he leave the cockroaches and crabs 
and lawyers behind and squeeze a few unicorns on board i called 
boylan my little unicorn one afternoon when poldy was down
making an eejit of himself with those two slut bargirls at 
the ormond but he didn't get the reference thought i was talking
about a uniform must be losing his hearing first sign of
aging i never want to get old i must contact that nice
young poet friend of poldy's what's his name again stephen
something funny not irish more like a greek about immortality 
and met him pike hoses yes i get all sweaty when i hear those big 
words yes molly bloom and the unicorn mythical beasts all living 
forever nibbling flowers on howth head yes and a  poke with the 
proboscis now and then maybe a song for the old times yes immortality 
yes