SALOME

“At Princeton on Monday a freshman

asked Antonin Scalia to explain his

legal writings comparing sodomy

bans with laws prohibiting bestiality

and murder.”—Juliet Lapidos

The NYTimes December 11, 2012

The exquisite Beardsley—

Illustrations for Salome,

My dear, so very campy

And preciously naughty

The same with campy—

Miss Wilde doing her own

Drag version of his

Kitschy play “Salome”

But Rita Hayworth’s—

Movie of Miss Salome

With the enthralled

Queen Charles Laughton

Takes camp beyond—

The beyond until the

Head of John the Baptist

Gets plopped on the plate

Miss Stewart Granger—

Doesn’t butch things up

Very much either when

It comes to Salome

No matter how many—

Dances of the Seven Veils

It would surely take a

Thousand veils to conceal

Poor John the Baptist—

Didn’t have a chance

Not with Judith Anderson,

Rita Hayworth and Charles

Laughton in the wings

Judge Scalia should ban—

This shocking flick because

Of its sodomy, bestiality

And murder most foul!!!!