I skim read Tess of the Durbervilles
I confess I couldn't
Get into Thomas Hardy
And I picked
Good old faithful
Romeo and Juliet
For my Shakespeare study
And I said to
One of my sport colleagues
That I was finished
Reading about classic
Female "heroines" because
How could they
Be called hero's
When they always
Topped themselves?
I was only 15
It was just a joke
Madame Bovary is
The same ending too