From db96bb7e5269fa4f20ac051c7117636c9d2a2246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 18:59:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "Sexology's Sad Lexicon" --- content/2016/sexologys-sad-lexicon.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/2016/sexologys-sad-lexicon.md diff --git a/content/2016/sexologys-sad-lexicon.md b/content/2016/sexologys-sad-lexicon.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0cc0d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2016/sexologys-sad-lexicon.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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).) + +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." -- 2.17.1