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Remember Norman
Mailer (SUNY Buffalo, 1972) Norman Norman Norman Mailer Bellows from the podium He will give five bucks To the very first feminist Who's got the balls, who's got the pluck To get up from her seat in the audience And storm the barricade. One young woman calls his bluff Marches up and stands before him Puts her hand out for the cash. "Pay up," she says, but he ignores her. Norman Norman Norman Mailer Promised he'd give, but does not give her That five-dollar bill. Norman Norman Norman Mailer Says, for sitting on his face, He prefers Pat Nixon (a gal who knows her place) To that Germaine Greer. How he swaggers! How he boasts He'll "give it" to Gore Vidal, that queer. "If you give it to Gore like you gave it to me," Shouts that same young woman With her hand out again, "He's got nothing to fear." Not even a ten-spot, just a fiver... Norman Norman Norman Mailer Promises to give, but fails to deliver. |