Poetry

Saturday, 8 January 2022

Fashion talks

To the one in the middle

 the Fashionista


She was so blonde

With her face of alabaster

She was blue and dark at once

Well blue goes with everything

You nonce

It goes with jet black

And cream


It goes like a riverboat dream

 

She was all about the women in

Between the noughties

And the blue sky


And she read about the Beatles

The History of Shell

She sucked the oil slick up, slick


She was sick as well

Can you believe her

What a statement

Modern fashionista

Modern fascist fashion


With the moustache as well

And Nationalism on the playing cards

Hitler, Mussolini

Dictator top Trumps


Trumped by Trump

And the gene pool is too small

On this crabby island

It is too tight and cruel

And we burn witches too


Who do? You do?

You do, voodoo!

No, you do!

You remind me of the girl


I once knew next door

Down the road

Who was blonde-haired and blue-eyed

And fair


And next door to her was a pig tailed ginger mop 

Whose green eyes glowed


Like emeralds against her pale skin

But the fashionista hasn't seen her

Hasn't seen the Irish Vista

Hasn't witnessed Scottish skulk


And Hulk and Sulk over shipwrecked bulks

Of fashion and blue Whales


Washed up on green seaweed shores

No sadly the fashionista never saw

 

She moved to Brighton and became a mermaid


But when the fishermen saw her, they caught her

And chopped off her tail


And so now she swims with a wooden tail

Which is very difficult because wood floats

But instead of synchronised swimming routines

She began to sell Brighton rock and she left


Her wishes in them

Little messages

“Please help me I'm in Brighton”

“Not all that glistens is gold”

And

“A mermaid's life is never free

For you're caught between a Rock

And the Deep Blue Sea”

 


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