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Pink Is Having a Moment

Pink Is Having a Moment

with
the new pink cricket ball,
pink soccer boots,
Yes, it's True Folks! It's a fair game!
But, 
no World Cup team
is clad in pink—
they think it's too tame,
or maybe too bold,
a distraction
which amounts to the same.

Pink in fashion
is always arriving fresh,
and returning.

In nature, though,
it's as old as a daybreak
and twice as enduring.

Pink panthers,
pink flamingos,
pink slips, pink gin,
pink carnations in a lapel,

powdered pink wigs on
pink elephants after midnight,
drifting through Versailles
in clouds of rose-red perfume mist;

gate-crashing catwalks,
then riding away
in the Shock of the New—
A Shiny Pink Cadillac.

But don't expect
the pink moment,
to last very long.
It'll be left
as a glinting hint 
subdued in the background.

Blushing in sunsets,
hiding in seashells,
lounging lazily
inside ripe watermelons,

lingering in galloping galahs,
coral reef fish fins flaps,
and the inner demure curves
of a conch shell.

It will fade from fashion
around the end of July.

Pink's moment will pass.
Yet, somewhere, out there—
A rose will ignore them,
a flamingo will stand on one leg,
and the evening sky
will blush 
without permission!
and 
the world  will discover
Pink isss It!
all over again.

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