Mad Queens in the Attic

The Mad Queens in the Attic

It didn’t take long for—

The Mad Queens in the Attic to

Come swishing down the stairs

Like the Portrait of Dorian Gray—

They’d been cooped upstairs for

Much too long, my dears

But unlike Oscar Wilde’s double—

The new Mad Queens in the Attic

Weren’t tres bashful one little bit

Like Miss Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Girls & the Jane Eyre Madwomen, the 

New Mad Queens liked to flaunt it

They didn’t hide themselves—

Behind a curtain upstairs forever

But instead descended the staircase

Would Dorian Gray’s visage have—

Been so bold as to flaunt herself like

These raving Mad Queens in the Attic?

Now Oxford Press comes out with—

The Mad Queens in the Attic exposé

So shockingly homo transgressive!!!

Queer Theory literary critics are—

Lining up to guzzle Sassafras Tea

And trash this latest QT effrontery