"Sexology's Sad Lexicon"

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+Title: Sexology's Sad Lexicon
+Date: 2016-11-06 18:52
+Category: other
+Tags: cathartic, poetry
+
+(In honor of Chicago's victory in the recently-concluded 2016 World Series, with [apologies to Franklin Pierce Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%27s_Sad_Lexicon#Composition).)
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+These are the saddest of possible names:  
+ "Blanchard and Bailey and Lawrence."  
+Trio of scholars on guys being dames,  
+ Blanchard and Bailey and Lawrence.  
+Ruthlessly pricking our gender identity  
+ Making a trans woman face her reality—  
+Names that survive despite all the world's enmity:  
+ "Blanchard and Bailey and Lawrence."