She's Gonna Lead You Right

not kath-a-rine
like cleaning fluid and sticky candy

not kath-e-rine
like a teddy bear and an old dress

but kathryn
like lightning bolts and icecaps
(not racket butts and ballet buns)

mentioned to her by tuvok
who'd gotten it from sulu

she looked like a katharine
and sounded like her too

who was eccentrically matter-of-fact
and vice, of course, versa

a    little sharper, than ifs ands or(s) buts
just    as deadly as all
natural    wild mighty
force

so she was inordinately pleased
at her own singularity

she was told that hepburn might also have gone down with the ship