Members of Congress were stuck in a moment they couldn’t get out of on Thursday when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi read a poem by U2 frontman Bono comparing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the patron saint of Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day.
“Oh Saint Patrick he drove out the snakes,” Pelosi read at the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Capitol Hill, “with his prayers but that’s not all it takes / for the snake symbolizes / an evil that rises / and hides in your heart / as it breaks / and the evil has risen my friends / from the darkness that lives in some men / but in sorrow and fear / that’s when saints can appear / to drive out those old snakes once again / and they struggle for us to be free / from the psycho in this human family / Ireland’s sorrow and pain / is now the Ukraine / and Saint Patrick’s name now Zelensky.”
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Pelosi then went on to welcome the Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show to perform before the lunch.
In the poem, Bono referred to the legends surrounding Patrick, whom some claim drove the snakes out of Ireland.
Pelosi reads her aforementioned poem from Bono:
“Ireland’s sorrow and pain
Is now the Ukraine
And Saint Patrick’s name now Zelenskyy.” pic.twitter.com/AEhD5REwZZ— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 17, 2022
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Pelosi has participated in a variety of performative acts during her time as the speaker of the House. She asked the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton to perform a song on the anniversary of Jan. 6. Critics also slammed her for kneeling in 2020 to honor George Floyd while wearing Ghanaian kente cloth.
Her poetry reading came after President Joe Biden poked fun at himself to open his remarks at the luncheon.
“Bless me father, for I’m about to sin,” the president said, earning chuckles from the crowd. “I just want you to know, I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid. I married Dominic Giacoppa’s daughter.”
