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published in Genius Floored,
2009, Soaring Penguin
Noteworthy
(for
Gill)
Shall
we be extraordinary when we meet tomorrow
create
our own belle epoch, sport hats, slinky sling-backs
scandalize
our dead mothers and not wear stockings
paint
our toenails puce or fuchsia
borrow
bolder images for the day?
Let’s
wear dresses that squirm round our bodies
like
the silken hands of lovers
throw
flowing stoles across our shoulders
though
not enough to conceal décolletage;
instead
let’s dust our throats and cleavage
in
glittering bronzer, coat our wrists in jewels
eat
Italian, luscious pasta, dense delicious sauce
a
salad of rocket leaves with nestled olives
sip
some effervescent asti. Let’s get drunk
then
exchange some torrid gossip
our
long necks craned over a dash of wickedness
with
something brash. When we laugh,
which
we often do in muffled amusement,
let’s
do it loud, we undistinguished women,
who
prize each other over rubies,
let’s
be shocking
and
make the crowd mark us present.
Lyn White
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