The First Modern Lady

"I hear the first Nora of Norway was a living doll!"  
-- playwright and modern feminist Henrik Idibera-Ibsen

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"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."  
 
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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 22, 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