This day (March 17) is St. Patrick’s Day, and Condominium Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the White Condominium. At the luncheon, Speaker Pelosi read a poem that she mentioned became written by U2 frontman Bono. Based on a tweet from Bono, he has an annual tradition of sending Pelosi a limerick for the luncheon. “This year the limerick is irregular & no longer funny at all,” he wrote.
The poem, per Pelosi’s recitation, begins, “Oh Saint Patrick he drove out the snakes,” and it closes with a reference to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky: “Ireland’s sorrow and be anxious/Is now the Ukraine/And Saint Patrick’s name now Zelensky.” Read the entire poem and evaluate Pelosi’s recitation below.
Oh, saint Patrick he drove out the snakes
Along with his prayers but that’s no longer all it takes
For the snake symbolizes
An contaminated that rises
And hides on your heart
Because it breaks
And the contaminated has risen my mates
From the darkness that lives in some males
However in sorrow and ache
That’s when saints can appear
To power out these feeble snakes as soon as more
And they fight for us to be free
From the psycho in this human family
Ireland’s sorrow and be anxious
Is now the Ukraine
And saint Patrick’s name now Zelenskyy
