Clerihew of a Discreet Traveler

ELIZABETH BISHOP

Elizabeth Bishop
Refused to dish up
The intimate details of her life
With her troubled Brazilian wife.

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Clerihew for the Lonely and Irascible

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

Patricia Highsmith
Proclaiming forthwith
She was never again to drink alone,
Went out and bought a dictaphone.

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Clerihew of Lesbian Cool

EILEEN MYLES

Clearly, no one "styles"
Eileen Myles.
Should anyone try
She'd say, "Maybe... a tie?"

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Daily Dose

From Selected Poems, by Charlotte Mew

I SO LIKED SPRING

I so liked Spring last year
Because you were here;-
The thrushes too-
Because it was these you so liked to hear-
I so liked you.

This year's a different thing,-
I'll not think of you.
But I'll like the Spring because it is simply spring
As the thrushes do.

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Daily Dose

From I'm Just a Person, by Tig Notaro

SCHOOL

"I was on board learning colors and shapes, or taking questions when the answers were chicken, duck, horse, pig, cow, goat, or sheep.  But when the curriculum began to include learning to tell time or long division or memorizing the names of the planets, it just wasn't fun anymore.  I mean, I didn't mind easy things like 'rounding off,' because my answer could be 'I don't know, for?  Five?  Get off my case, I'm rounding.'  Otherwise my interest level in whatever was being taught at school registered at zero."

From Chapter 2, Are You My Mother?

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Happy Pride Month!