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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