Short Hairspray Poems

Moon dancing in Trafalgar Square
When pigeon poop* soared through the air
It splattered around
Without touching ground
But no one had a facemask spare . . . . 


*aka London hairspray...

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A  soft chalk pastel painting            
white as the dolls of Japan

red, green and blue
secure the trees to the sky

cheap hairspray fixes the dust,
paper toothed and rough

in the wooden frame
the picture keeps you in view....

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sex and hairspray,
its what her image screams.
her lips smeared with 99 cent gloss.
vodka and whisky lingering on hot breath.
fishnet stockings,
a hole in one knee.
eyeliner smudged by the humid air.
trojans packed away in her leather purse.
"well," she purs in a drunken slur.
"what do you think?"...

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Held together by hairspray and prayers.
Knowing the quiddity could not be changed.
Clothes could not zhuzh it nor putting on airs.
As long as the attitude remained deranged.

Attitudes make a person who they are.
Just a nip here and a tuck there
Life could have a different repertoire. 
An awesome attitude equals a billionaire....

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work in progress
Footle of Country Bands

S**t Kickers/slide guitar
cowboys 
Stetson 

John Denver/folk music
“Thank God”
fiddler


Footle Of Rock Bands

Guitar strings/stockings
steely 
nylons

Big hair/bands
hairspray
glamour 

Roadies/Hotel
seconds
trashed rooms

Thrash/Punk Rock
Bangers
Façade...

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Between the Sexes

Guys are complicated
And girls are stupid.
To much hairspray
They blow away cupid.

Girls try to look good
Just to impress guys,
When all they do
Is screw and tell lies.

See I can insult guys and girls
Because people are all about looks.
Teenagers are about their hormones
Instead of school books.

I know what I say
And you should believe me.
Guys are complicated
And girls are stupid....

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One more thing, he told me
She rocks eighties hair
Eighties hair! I had to wrack my brain trying to remember eighties hair.
The second I saw her it all came flooding back.
Teased up, pulled out, fluffy, puffy, poufy goofy eighties hair!
How had I forgotten buying a can of hairspray each week?
How had I forgotten Farrah Fawcett?
How had I forgotten that when we had our hair cut like Farrah ……
None of us looked like her?...

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Everyone has an image of how they want to look

From super models on TV to fashion in a book

Super skinny models to muscleman who are buff

Imagine your a fighter who is invincible and tuff

Having fashioned hairstyle with hairspray and holding
Gel.

Having the best of everything expensive perfume
That has a plesent smell.

But to give yourself an image you just might go to far

So just a small reminder except who you are...

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Enigmatically stubborn to style, the coif
Some days it can be easily pulled off
Other days it requires an exorcism
Like Zoolander it can look like ‘Magnum’

Hides my receding hairline like a charm
Sophistication to my head’s yardarm
Its antidote is a very windy day
Requiring heavy doses of hairspray

When it works my lady wants to stroke it
I recoil in fear, making her remit
For a single finger can ruin it
It’s a fickle angel to babysit
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The 60s brought changes to hair 
Today, they would make people stare 
Bouffant look was in
Made puffy from thin 
And teasing- it was the big flare. 

I was one of those who partook 
In those days, it was the best look 
But when it was done 
I still had some fun
In styling it by my own book.

These days, I still tease it a bit
Shaped smoothly, it will nicely sit
And hold fine all day
A touch of hairspray
I'm good to go, well-groomed and fit!
...

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