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# Bull Run
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/bull-run/
- Published: 2021-07-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Pens are mighty indeed but if you want to make money watch skirts Skirt Length Theory sometimes called Hemline Theory predicts that as hemlines go up markets go up some wonder if this relationship can hold as more wom...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Pens are mighty indeed  
but if you want to make money  
watch skirts  
Skirt Length Theory  
sometimes called  
Hemline Theory  
predicts that as hemlines go up  
markets go up  
some wonder if this relationship  
can hold as more women trade  
perhaps not  
but men will watch skirts anyway

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**Author notes:** 1\. The universe, for him, did not extend beyond the silken round of her skirts. Madam Bovary, Flaubert https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skirtlengththeory.asp https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784221-skirts-or-skirting-quotes-prompts