Bonus: The Annotated Birthday Poem

As promised, here is the annotated version of the second poem I posted on Day 27, showing references to the celebrities who share my birthday.

For Birth Sakes (April 27)

Mother of Frankenstein! I'm all for women's rights,[1]

but I don't often telegraph [2] my opinions.

God grant me the right to speak generally [3],

and talk of trivial things like my love for three oranges [4].

Don't let my horns be [5] too loud when I blow them -

I'm not in the Hall of Fame [5,6], and I would never go

to the country and slaughter [6] a calf.

I might draw cartoons of woodpeckers [7] though,

and I might be half of an odd couple, but I'm no medical examiner [8],

and I'm certainly not the wife of a king  [9].

I'm a fan of the love of a man and a woman [10],

and like my football coach, I'm from the college of Hard Knox [11].

I listen to the American Top 40 [12] constantly,

but sometimes it distracts me - once I went up the down staircase,

but I'm not afraid of Virginia Woolf  [13].

You can sock it to me  [14], you can show me the money  [15],

you can give me piano lessons or build fences [16] around me,

but if you want it, here it is - come and get it [17].

I'll roam if I want to, even to the love shack [18]

or Detroit Rock City, where I can rock and roll all nite [19].

Then I'll take the morning train, and be for your eyes only [20],

I'll look as distinguished as a senator, or a booker [21] of getaways

even if I'm still in my morning jacket [22].

Key to clues:

[1]: Mary Wollstonecraft, early women's rights advocate and mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley

[2]: Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph

[3]: US Civil War general and President Ulysses S. Grant

[4]: Sergei Prokoviev, Russian classical composer (the opera Love for Three  Oranges)

[5]: Rogers Hornsby (Hall of Fame baseball player)

[6]: "Country" Enos Slaughter (another baseball Hall of Famer)

[7]: Walter Lantz (animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker)

[8]: Jack Klugman (star of  the TV series The Odd Couple and Quincy: M.E.)

[9]: Coretta Scott King (wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

[10]: Anouk Aimee (French actress, nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for A Man and a Woman)

[11]: Chuck Knox (former NFL football coach)

[12]: Casey Kasem (announcer, DJ, voice actor, host of American Top 40 radio series)

[13]: Sandy Dennis (actress, Up the Down Staircase and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

[14]: Judy Carne (actress/comedienne, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In; known as the "Sock It to Me!" girl)

[15]: Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor, Jerry Maguire)

[16]: August Wilson (playwright, The Piano Lesson, Fences)

[17]: Pete Ham (member of British pop group Badfinger)

[18]: Kate Pierson (member of The B-52's)

[19]: Ace Frehley (member of KISS)

[20]: Sheena Easton (singer)

[21]: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

[22]: Jim James (leader of the alt-rock band My Morning Jacket)]