Ode to Western Civilization

The three pillars of Western Civilization -
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare

All gay!

(No disrespect to Anne Hathaway)*

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* This irregular ode does use rhyme, yet, with consummate calculation, avoids both the three-part form of the Pindaric ode, and the two- or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode.

Rather, it comes to an epodic climax rhyming the monosyllabic "gay" with the trisyllabic "Hathaway".

Strophe and antistrophe be damned!

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke, Literary Advisor to the Queen