Pastiche Pleasures

She feels like chicken tonight
With Marmite toast
A welcome break
From green roast

A pound on the hip
You need to lose

 

Squeeze your achnes
And purchase a bra

Trigonometry 
Is her heart's desire 
And Shakespeare's prose

 

Squeeze your achnes 
And purchase a bra
Echoes in her ears
Your suitor 
In the parlour

The only gal 
To know her alphabet
A kindly neighbour 
Taught her to read

"Schools are for the city folks
Oriantel dance and
Amorous prose 
You need to learn!
We need your dowry;
Your daddy is in his death bed."
Her mama said
"This is the gypsy way
For a millennia!"

So she keeps her hips slim
And masters amorous prose
A fool she was not; 
She elopes
To the bright lights of the city
A job in the café 
Then night schools 
Learning Shakespeare's prose
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017


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Date: 5/25/2017 1:35:00 PM
Dear Tony, Thank you so much for your encouraging words. I have not written anything in a while. I sure will google Fran Lock. I have never heard of her before.
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Date: 5/9/2017 1:11:00 PM
Hello Yasemin, nice to meet you. The girl in your poem is smart. I have enjoyed your poem.
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