What's in a name?

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What's in a Name?
By Jill C.

John C. Calhoun rolls from my tongue in neck-jerking glory
Benvolio crushes like velvet on the way up my throat
Siddhartha seems an appropriate name for a lion in well earned majesty
And in ages past, I wanted to be called Blythe

There is some actress or other by that name
but I pay no attention to her
It was the meaning of the word that I followed

Happy go Lucky
flighty
full of joy
loving life

Twirling through meadows of Queen Anne's lace
with daisies entwined in long dark hair
Not concerned that the shades of red in the curtains and quilt barely don't match
Joyfully embracing dirt beneath fingernails
Gracing Marc Jacobs perfume ads and artists' canvasses alike
wallowing in the souls of those who draw near enough

But this is decidedly not me
Counting the number of repetitive clicks that wave through Newton's Cradle
before its inertia stops

Not that I much resemble my own name
I always thought that Jill was a good name for a promiscuous surfer
with short blonde curls
catching the eye of every man
Maybe even James Bond

What name suits me?
something stoic at first, then fanciful, imaginative
yet solidly phonetic and rooted in reality
a name that explains mysteries
and wraps them up as solid facts

It should be a name I actually like
perhaps Abraham Maslow
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Thanks to my two favorite Patricias: Avalon and Gillikin