DIVA

We thought the diva
of mixed race
in a mini skirt
deserved four encores
as she sang an exquisite
Violetta Valery
playing a courtesan
in La Traviata
at the Met,
she had a wide range
was polite
and cosmopolitan
even as flirt
then she/he revealed to us
at the opera cast party
she had a drag name
Helena Handbasket
and we consumed
our vanilla desert.