Fashion Ins and Outs
...This fashion is in, that one is out
narrow waists with baggy knees
Wide lapels and razor-thin ties
Who knows what will be
Slicked-back ducktails
top off muscle t-shirts
hop...
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ducktails, clothes, fashion, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
50's Hair, If You Dare
...Crewcuts, flattops, pompadours
Cowlicks, ducktails, side parts
Clean cuts, Ivy Leagues, slick-backs
Where have all these hairstyles gone
No longer do the cute chicks fawn ......
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ducktails, hair, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
That Day
...that day*
two score and ten
business men in leisure suits,
grandmothers with grey handkerchiefed hair
and adolescents in gaudy glasses,
girls wearing bouffants and sweaters,
the boys maybe ...
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Categories:
ducktails, confusion, crazy, death of
Form: Epitaph
The 50s Were Cool
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The 50’s are special to me
Started High School in ‘52
Wore shrink tight jeans and cowboy boots
Long hair ducktails and sideburns too
Rock and Roll music was “the thing”
Meet your bud...
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Categories:
ducktails, nostalgia, music, music, high
Form: Quatrain