Bad Housekeeping
But recently discovered, by me, in my researches into the library of Trinity
College Dublin, some rather louche areas of Paris, and certain Swiss bank
vaults, is the forgotten work of James Aloysius Joyce, 'Bad Housekeeping',
to wit. This text was prepared in between 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake'
and is composed around a celebration of financial helplessness, smelly
sweaty plimsolls, plosions of breath in the wordlines, echoing with years,
ah, in, out, in, out, etc, useful hints on evading landlords who are hungry
for rent, the ever circling cycles of the given, the usefulness of a brother
with a job, parody para die pardie, the emptiness of utter that lies at the
heartsole, the sticky yummy lovelich tufty kissmelonmarshmellowness of cunt
and the horse that never ever won at the races. With extra added tips, never
before found
on how to leave
the washing-up
on the make means
that never begin
on the soleriverrunningagainagen
the where we always are.
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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