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The First Modern Lady

"I hear the first Nora of Norway was a living doll!" -- playwright and modern feminist Henrik Idibera-Ibsen * * * "I D I B E R U G" -- the eight runes appearing on perhaps the world's oldest runestone recently discovered in Norway and readily translated herein by an age-old feminist-poet who adamantly insists he neither needs his spectacles nor takes his medication for severe senility "I Idibera am -- the first of feminists to fight against distressing stretch marks plus unsightly cellulite, uncomely thighs too big and uninviting boobs too small, the female brain -- though be it still quite brainlessly banal -- all wrinkles round the eyes as well as lines above the lips, together with the lack of shapely baby-making hips, a walk-in closet absent of a single six-inch heel -- and any feminist not knowing on all fours to kneel." * * * a dedication of Respect for the countless women of the past who struggled in Pain to become the popular real housewives of miami, norway a revolving helios rhyme in eight lines menippean satire on the liberated modern woman in fashionable pumps with matching purse at the botox party january, 2023 -- yet manifold billion-dollar beauty industries plus multitudinous plastic surgery centers all at convenient locations near each babe brain washed and set with curlers to any desired style