Showing posts with label Grace Metalious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace Metalious. Show all posts

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Clerihew for the Discarded Girdle

GRACE METALIOUS

Grace Metalious
Would often bewail the fuss
Made by prudes over Peyton Place,
Suggesting they get screwed, cut up, unlace.

A Caricature


Daily Dose

From Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place, by Ardis Cameron

LIKE

"Like Humpty Dumpty, we might argue, the author of Peyton Place did not fall; she was pushed."

From Epilogue, Memento Mori