Button up, Gertrude

We at Brightly shout from the top of our bright little lungs, "Happiest of 132nd birthdays two days late, gorgeous Gertrude!" Born at the early hour of 8am on February 3, 1874, to Amelia and Daniel Stein, Gertrude first saw the light of day in Allegheny, PA. Is it sunny or cloudy in lovely Allegheny?

In honor of Gertrude the Great's birthday, a few bite-sized buttons:

Diet Coke: Can

Suits the squat. What one winches quickest for wind-burn, sun buns with butter, more salt and then more. Chills the wind tunnel, supples the wind up.


SUV

Moon rovers moving mothers and other cakes, for instance brats bundled in bread and circuses. Transaxles highwired for trampling exhaust carpet-bombs, that one blue, that one a car park.


Cell Phone

Little kitty purrs portable, pocketwise. Envelope of sweet talk’s pollen, clings on tickled things, hears devices plot for further ringings, its jingles rubbing like the can-can, like a tire swing singing.


And the Dickinsonian oralce sends these wishes Stein-ward:

Estranged from Beauty - none can be -
For Beauty is Infinity -
And power to be finite ceased
Before Identity was creased -
(E. Dickinson, 1515)