I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt
this first lady was - as I - not pretty
but she had guts - she had spunk
so what I will do for my remainder
is - pardon my Frankish language -
I will not give a fiddling fiddlesticks
for what anyone says about my opinion
I shall respect theirs, of course,
but if disagreeing I shall use
elegantly disguised phrases that
not even a currently sitting president
would understand - obsolete words
I shall seek - still learning
until I die - a worthy goal
of an hexagonically challenged hecate.
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