Ode to Gloria Vanderbilt

Out the window with the old!*
Time for a bold new view
Sic transit Vanderbilt mundi
I'm Scylla --

Who are you?


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* Scylla is here, rather rudely I fear, referring to Ms. Vanderbilt's eldest son committing suicide by jumping out of her bedroom window as she watched, helplessly ...

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen