Mrs. Bloom’s Hat

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfi7MMYUBeI

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Mrs. Bloom’s hat – yes, yes, yes – and a yo!

What other recourse for old Leopold’s Molly?

Get even with Steven! Put Daedalus in a chapeau –

No arrow or bow: spill the buffoon with the folly

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of making him clown in a crown of subjection.

Looks just as good on a fellow as on a grande dame,

and would soundly forestall his arcane predilection

for folderol Steven thought had more aplomb…

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but please end this siege of egregiously terrible crap

in this awful un-ballad, cursed verse, this invalid

excuse for besmirching this Mount Ararat of a cap

in these dunderhead heaps of word salad! –

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let’s not be undone by – just done with – all that.

Now close in, surround it. This ain’t for sissies.

Don’t tell me you don’t want your head in that hat:

Has it the key to the lock on the heart of Ulysses?

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Or maybe it’s Dolly Bloom’s topper.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other?

Wouldn’t that be a whopper!

Dolly’s first cousin to Leo’s grandmother.

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