Daughter #3: Xanthippe

Naming today's baby daughter Xanthippe, so there

even though you said no philosophers ever had wives after Socrates

because Xanthippe

because she was so awful

because "shrewish and scolding"

because.

Naming today's baby daughter Xanthippe, may she be lippy and trippy,

I'll love her anyway and what is the worst that can happen?

So maybe she won't marry a philosopher!

It could be waaaaay worse.

Today's baby daughter, Xanthippe: zippy and skippy,

she won't wet her pants (and so what if she does)

she'll live in a trance and I'll love her because

just because.

"Far more stories about her than facts" - what else new?

If we've got zero info about her we'll call her a shrew?!

She lived two thousand four hundred years ago, guys,

Bearing babies to someone who's famously wise - or not wise?

Turns out Socrates liked having her as an opposite number

He wanted a person and not just a log or cucumber

And I wanted you as a person as well, baby little

Not a plant or accessory but yourself, all bitchy and brittle

So today's baby daughter: Xanthippe you are

hippy and nippy and my little star.