Caren Krutsinger Poet Narrative

Those Turkeys Look Perfect

Everyone wears tuxes and evening gowns
on the beach
and high heeled shoes
or highly polished winged tips
in magazines, anyway, the beautiful people.

Can you imagine walking or even trying
to walk in sand in high-heeled shoes?
Or how extra pretty your long dress
will look after it gets into wet sand?

Here they are. The ultra rich
on the cover of a prominent magazine
flaunting their evening gowns and high heels
in a beach on the sand.

This reminds me of something my cousin
told me once.  You know those turkeys 
on magazine covers that you look at 
around Thanksgivings time?  
They look perfect!

We can never get ours to look the same.
Okay. Here is the rub. Those turkeys are
PAINTED. They are RAW.  Did not know that did you?
Sometimes what we see is not what is real at all.

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Gershon Wolf June 30, 2019 at 6:16 PM Great proof for the lie that 'Seeing is Believing!' :) gw

Andrea Dietrich June 30, 2019 at 1:46 PM great message, CAren. It's all about "the look" for the magazine or whatever. I liked your analogy to the painted turkey. (my captcha reads CUK. Like cluck cluck or a poor spelling for Cuk those turkeys.

Jan Allison June 30, 2019 at 3:12 AM I giggled at the imagery of the wet dresses and trying to walk in wet sand - its all for show and I bet they wear a fake smile too and their lines and wrinkles and wobbly bits are all airbrushed out lol I'd heard about the turkeys being painted Caren not everything we see or read is real yet we are easily deceived:-(hugs Jan xx