Thread: Portrait of a Manicured Mess

Thank you Curtis! Always a big POW with my endings! So glad you enjoyed the read. Laurie

Laurie, I don't know how I missed this poem now that it has been over a year since you first posted it. You know I love your writings on the Human Condition and this is quite telling.

Hubby,who hangs his pride
on a hat stand,
handing her Franklin faces.

I love this stanza. Both of them are full of themselves.

And the last line:

Tomorrow, she'll stuff death into a Channel suit.

Can't stop thinking she's impressing .

I like it - very skillful - although I need a little American-English translation to understand all of the references. Or maybe I just don't mix in the right circles

I will post a poem I write a few years ago on a similar theme.

Ravel

Much appreciation to you both for appreciating this older poem of mine. Yes, Cindy. Sadly enough she lives to impress, having no sense of self. Death-like in a Channel suit.