I think Cole Porter is one of the great writers in history. No “music history” or “songwriting history” about it. Just “great writer,” period. Consider: You’re the top! You’re the Coliseum. You’re the top! You’re the Louvre Museum Porter was that rare talent whose gifts and cultivations would surely have made him successful in most any form, but his upbringing, intelligence, tenacity and love of a well-turned phrase landed him in the music world as a major composer and lyricist. Too bad for you, poetry and fiction! There’s something wild about you child That’s so contagious Let’s be outrageous Let’s…