Three Cheers For The Cosmic Lady!
Three Cheers For the Cosmic Lady!
hanging from a tree.
She went to Law School,
like a Damn Fool,
but now at least she's Free.
Three Cheers For The Cosmic Girl!
We knew she'd travel farThe first one in her family
to ever pass the Bar!
Three Cheers For the Cosmic Daughter!
Ne'er did she give up hope.
She found enjoyment, good employment
with Daddy's nylon rope.
Three Cheers For the Cosmic Lady!
She flew so well through Space.
May God have Mercy on her Soul
and grant eternal Grace.
But see her eyes! they look so frightening
in the red light of the moon.
What made the Lady so upset
to end her life so soon?
Some said: "Life is just unkind,
and that it sore distressed her mind."
But Some say it was greed and Gold
*(For t'was to Lordy she'd been sold.)
"It's not our fault she's hanging there,"
So said the Law School Dean.
"There's figures, stats, and rows and lines,
she should have read between!"
Three Cheers For The Cosmic Gal!
but..... just go cut her down.
The Mayor said it will not do,
to have this in Our Town.
And Three Cheers For The Cosmic Kid!
A pearl's upon her breast.
She's out of Debt, and Beautiful;
and finally at rest.
So it's Three Cheers For the Cosmic Lady!
She's up there with the Stars,
where Cherubs spin melodious Spheres
and Seraphs play Guitars.
Three Cheers, For The Cosmic Lady!
Three Cheers, For The Cosmic Lady!
Three Cheers!
For The Cosmic Lady!
JD Pitty-Party Painter III
Bron-Y-Aur Cottage, Hoboken, WInter, 2011
* Al Lord of Sallie Mae
Depicted above is the first female Cosmonaut or "Cosmic" Lady.
*To me this poem is a sort of cross between Kipling's "Danny Deever", Edgar Alan Poe's Israfel and Conqueror Worm (the mood) and a David Bowie song. The three cheers ingredient I guess because I was thinking about the contrast between the Pomp and Circumstance of Graduation, and the deep depths of depression resulting from Crushing lifetime debt, and no employment.
The traveling through space element is of course a preposterous mockery. Going far in life (shooting for the stars) as compared to the reality of having only traveled the distance or "space" between a tree limb and the end of a rope.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
(And very sad of course. Loreena McKennits "Lady of Shalott" below inspired the mood and not so much the context.) Her version of Tennyson's Poem is very beautiful, and a great favorite of mine.)
And of course, this little chestnut. I don' know which version is more horrifying. (at least it is to me.)
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