TULIPS
When tulip meets tulip
What you get is this:
A wholly maniacally
Amsterdam kiss.
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AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!
The Girl Scouts are exhorting people to stop using the word bossy.
--New York Magazine
They say it on chocolate wrappers,
They say it on buttons and stickers,
They ask it of country bumpkins,
They demand it of city slickers.
OK, Girl Scouts, OK,
It's time women had their day,
And "bossy" is a putdown
--I'll do whatever you say.
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A bit of wordplay that goes back to the song’s original times (famous original real lyric by the great Carolyn Leigh, who by 1983 when she sadly passed away, was not overlooked. Interesting that in theater writing, women were far less overlooked, at least on the words side).
But it feels right to use that wordplay to note that time is catching up to shine a light on the overlooked, as they’re on the way to being less overlooked.
Tune of “Hey, Look Me Over”
They overlooked us, that’s in the past.
Back then they rooked us -
Now, our names will last.
We may get our due yet, proper acclaim
Equality may come through yet
Taking long, but all the same -
Though it has taken so long for time to include.
It won’t fix what’s wrong
But now’s no time to brood.
We’re a little surprised that some folks once said
“We never heard of her.”
But now they all know who we were!
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"The protest, which was organized by a group started by the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin, started just after 4 p.m., when several dozen people converged at the Temple of Dendur inside the wing."
Well, perhaps Ms. Goldin's photographs have needed a bit more publicity than they've been getting. Perhaps the demonstration will garner them some press.
What's sure is that the hardworking Metropolitan Museum staffers didn't need to extract dozens and scores of pill bottles from the pool at the Temple of Dendur. Talk about entitlement.
Just for the record, Oxycontin gave my mother, suffering from terminal lung cancer, some pain-free, lucid weeks before she died. Obviously, it has been abused. But I'm glad it was developed and available to my mother.
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"What is definitively known about Mary Ewing Outerbridge is that she set up the nation’s first tennis courts, on Staten Island."
Hah! And here I thought the Outerbridge Crossing was somehow more "outer" than the Goethals Bridge, i.e., on the other, far side of somewhere. Thanks for correcting that longtime, vague naming for me. The next time I cross the Outerbridge, I will remember Mary Ewing Outerbridge.
(As for Juliette Gordon Lowe, she's certainly not overlooked in Savannah, Georgia, where her home became headquarters for the Girl Scouts of America for a time and is now a major tourist draw. Nor is she, in spirit, overlooked by present or past girl scouts.)
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Whether “overlooked” or “overdue,” this is a fascinating endeavor that could readily spread to many corners of our world...
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