Cool Today, Un-cool Tomorrow (2016 April PAD - Day 19)

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Cool Today, Un-cool Tomorrow

Let us bustle today

through decades

of accoutrements

from confining collars,

laces and ties,

corsets and bows,

hats, hooks and eyes,

v-necks and trains,

faux (or real) fox-fur collars,

bangles and bracelets

tattoos and piercings.

Let’s step through time

from narrow shoes

and lace up boots

to T-straps, sandals,

wedgies, saddle shoes,

ballerina slippers,

go-go boots,

penny loafers,

designer athletic

footwear and

flip-flops;

go from bound

in hobble skirts,

to liberated flappers,

minis-, midis-, maxis;

baggy trousers to tight pants

(and back); let’s traverse

the map – Hawaiian shirts,

Bermuda shorts;

let’s suit up in pant suits,

power suits, leisure suits

(all wholly unsuitable)

with feathers and hats

from hair to there

in upsweeps, bobs

and bobby pins,

pageboys, pixies,

pompadours,

pigtails, ponytails

beehives, big hair

and color ourselves

pink, purple,

blue, and grey.

And the only thing

anyone can honestly say

(beyond any shadow

of a doubt)

is that whatever’s in

today

will some day

be out.

PSC /2016

 ~

 Penned for Day 19 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: a cool and/or uncool poem

 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-19

 

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