smacks too much of Angelou for my taste
KS
On 04/02/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I began this poem, a response to a Read Write Poem prompt: clothes -- just
> as I was getting sick. Worked on it some more and posted it last night.
>
> I thought it was one kind of poem, but my readers (at least those who have
> commented) think it's an entirely different sort of poem.
>
> I'm interested in what you think:
>
> Make the Woman
>
> Let me put on
> this blazer
> with brooch,
>
> pull back my hair
> into a tight
> knot.
>
> There.
> Will that
> do?
>
> Perhaps you'd prefer
> this red silk
> dress
>
> bare legs
> and spiked
> heels
>
> or this flowery
> innocent
> shirtwaist?
>
> No? This strapless
> tube, then
> you can see
>
> the ring
> in my
> navel. Pull.
>
> You long
> for leather
> and high boots
>
> with a whip?
> Even now
> you're in charge.
>
> Oh, you want me to
> unzip my skin
> for you?
>
> Here, let me
> fold it
> onto this chair.
>
> Happy now?
>
> --
>
>
> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
>
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