Pain Fashion Poems

October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

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Broken Beauty

By Mark D. Stucky
Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell,
a rapid, pretty paint job
on an insubstantial surface,
that alluringly promises much
but never satisfies the hunger.

True human...

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I got a polo neck jumper.
She said they were in.
Pep wears one.
He hasn’t manboobs.
Ribbed, dark grey.
Tighter than it should of been.
With a vintage leather, black...

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Paisley's not in
    Thin ties are disasters
  Corduroy's out
    No stomachs are stout

  Fashion's dictates rule young...

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pins and needles sewn across the bed in threads of yellow-brown and rosy, red stitched across my sheets and embroidered to my bed and pillow...

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"...I don't know its name"

BUT! 

Someone once said we were slaves to Fashion   
I think they are right we feel sad depressed happy...

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Leather boots 
tight black suits 
skin hot bound 
in knots cutting 
sweet the heat 
Burns in between 
the pleasure 
of the pain 
the sweat 
of...

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De la croûte à la mie 
Parvient l'essentiel de l'ambroisie;
De la préparation à la fourniture 
Tournoie la belle tournure.

Miettes pêche en poudre, 
Saupoudrées à la...

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Nowadays we always dress,
Clothes we use on a mattress,
Just for fun and to impress,
Nothing more, nothing less.
We seem to be vision less.

We feel neither cold...

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To whom it may concern,
Wishing to more learn
About the bearer, our ex-student,
He was a Great Sympathizer of ‘The Imprudent’…

Worldly wise and to a fault bright,
He...

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went out in a new outfit and car, to find I had a flat tire

 
Date Written: 8/24/2020

2 Place     When plans...

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The High Night of the Dark Wind

Dancing fairies on the lake of ice, 
leaving no marks as they pass. 
The tiny birds, chase them...
not to...

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Come As You Are
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Come as you are, forget appearances!
Is your hair untamable, your part uneven, your bodice unfastened?...

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Bronwyn the Barbaric was a buxom lass
the envy of all her peers
She spoke with unrivaled swashbuckling sass
her pirate-ess fashion was fierce

She could charm off the...

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Brainstorming (For Me) Generates "Writer's Block"

Lesson obstruction,
     but more so an over
     whelming flood of ideas
 ...

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