AMY LOWELL(1874-1925)

If only you would have been a man,

an obese, rather ugly man,

loving women, 

then it would have been all-right;

your status as a major poet

would not have suffered -

but, alas! You were a

woman, and a middle-aged,

overweight one,

and all the obese,

rather ugly men

could not forgive you

that you were a lesbian

of the kind

their friends wouldn't paint

cavorting nude and pink

beside some

Arcadian stream.

19.07.2020