The Plaid Couch

The plaid couch was well-built in 1972.
We purchased it brand new from a ritzy furniture store.
I was not fond of the plaid, but it was fairly inexpensive.
Little Plaid could tell stories about my potato chip binges.
Many of them ended up in bits under her cushions.
Her Scotch guard was remarkable.
She is fifty-one years old now.
Sitting in my granddaughter’s sorority house.
They needed a couch.
It’s so comfy, we fight over it, she told me.
They had dolled it up with pillows and artwork.
It looks better there than it ever looked in my house.
Fifty-one and you have never aged, I tell her.
Plaid never looked so welcoming!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Cheney Avatar
January 18, 2023 at 7:11 AM
51 and stuffed with life stories. A good couch is a great thing.
Krutsinger Avatar
January 18, 2023 at 12:17 PM
Thank you Kenneth
Bauer Avatar
January 16, 2023 at 2:31 PM
ha! there was a plaid couch in the house my husband and i bought as a summer place so i can picture it perfectly. ours lasted until some mice made a home in it and then we tossed it. i wonder if someone else picked it up and is still using it...
Krutsinger Avatar
January 16, 2023 at 6:30 PM
I bet they did and they are!
Wolf Avatar
January 16, 2023 at 12:33 AM
As the muleteers always say: There's an arse for every seat... Or is it 'There's a seat for every arse? Hmmmm. ~ Don Key
Krutsinger Avatar
January 16, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Both work for me
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