Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for June 13, 2013

Who knew that James Joycespoke in haiku?

James Joyce, laddie, we scarcely knew you! Let not your spirit be troubled by the faded glory of Oprah….

I believe that’s a limerick rather than a haiku, but who’s counting.

Daedalus/Sedulous?

Not a perfect rhyme, but better poets have used worse.I’ll play with it (and “credulous” as well).

o Molly sweet Molly please cradle usin your arms as you did Stephen Dedaluswe ache for the kissesof mister Bloom’s missusyou spin us dear Molly you dreidel us

Try “settle us” If Ogden Nash can use near rhyme. Mr. Joyce won’t mind/mine.

Of course, the nearness of the rhymes depends on how you pronounce “Dedalus.” I’ve always gone with “DAY-da-lus”, the same way I pronounce his mythical forebear, Daedalus (hence my initial spelling, written before I checked). But do others pronounce it “DED-a-lus”? I suppose one might even rhyme it with “needle us”, which raises some interesting possibilities.

And yeah, Joyce would probably be OK with any of ’em…