Friday, February 16, 2018

Edna Chapeau and her Four Hatted Freds


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John Ruskin, praising the irrationality
of Gothic architecture:
“It not only dared, but delighted in,
the infringement of every servile principle.”
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Who’s that lady in the hat with the heads?
Oh! It’s Edna Chapeau and her Four Hatted Freds!
Is she a walking advertisement for her doo-wop band –
Or acting out another “episode” we’ll never understand?
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Perhaps she’s doing both.
Madness begs the world to ply its troth
And wed it.
The world sometimes will let it.
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Maybe that’s a way to cure insanity.
Play up to its vanity
And tell it it’s the best.
Something to which Edna might attest.
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Change “it” to “she”
in Ruskin’s quote about irrationality:
“She not only dared, but delighted in,
the infringement of every servile principle.”
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That’s how Edna feels invincible.
She’s magnificently unconvinceable.  



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