Do not be cross with poetry

[Leanne]

Timms: I don't always understand poetry.

Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.

-- The History Boys

I didn't make it through Finnegan's Wake in one go. It's worth the return though.

Poor Joycie, a drunk and a nutter,
would smother his daughter in butter,
his muse and his riddle --
did Dedalus diddle
and Finnegan wake in the gutter?