Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 79
Beckett learned to live with doubt;
Synge disappeared into the mist; 55
It's a long and dreary list.
Yet Joyce, who looked at death and doom,
Answered them with Molly Bloom—
Yes 1 said Yes I will Yes—
And now perhaps I should confess: 60
Romantic Ireland can't be beat.
In the P.O. on O'Connell Street
I, a pacifist, feel pride
For the ghost of John MacBride,
For Connolly, and all the rest 65
Who gave their lives for the oppressed,
Who inspired Nehru, Ho Chih Minh
And all who fight the cruel machine
In Africa today, or Salvador.
And I, with genes of Lachlann Mor, 70
Know my soul is crucified
By fanatic Ireland's pride.
As Wilde found, wit is no defense,
Nor skeptic Joyce's common sense:
Defeat itself becomes a joy 75
In the last three bars of Danny Boy.
Cisatlantic notes for transatlantic readers:
4. Bailinspittle: a town in Kerry where, in 1985, a statue of the Blessed
Virgin was perceived by thousands to move, jump, dance, make "imploring"
gestures etc. over a period of about four months. The statue was finally
smashed by Protestant iconoclasts who denounced the Catholic worshippers
for "idolatry." Sinn Fein: a political party with an ideology so close to the Irish
Republican Army that it is widely considered a "front" for the IRA. The
name Sinn Fein means "ourselves alone" and is the slogan the Citizen
shouts, in Ulysses, before throwing the biscuit box at Bloom.
62. The P.O. on O'Connell Street is the Post Office seized by the rebels
during the Easter 1916 rebellion. To get them out of the PO, the British
shelled downtown Dublin and killed thousands of innocent civilians.