My Own Private Ulysses: 2026 A Psychodyssey

2026: A Psychodyssey

Tell me about a schizophrenic man

And show how his Greek mind was truly lost.

Was that before or after Troy it ran

Amuck, the lives of his men paid the cost.

He took delusion’s word as gods’ advice,

And sailed off on the oddest of guilt trips,

Then added opiates, what’s one more vice

To our most epic con man’s many rips?

Once the psycho summed up his long path,

With nothing left to kill, so no part two.

Then came an odd man out who did the math,

And summoned up the old through something new.

Joyce used metempsychosis to reframe

Our psycho killer with a Roman name.