Paired with a sweater
Featuring stitches
With long deep pockets
Welcomed everywhere
Popular trousers
Wash and wear them
No ironing
Fold hang or roll
Comfortable
Casual
Overalls
Dungarees
Denim
Cotton
Jeans
Save me, Cotton, save me, O,
from the Polyester foe.
Shield me with your porous weave
on back and neck and chest and sleeve
lest I be trapped and worn to bits
by Acetates and Double-knits
that tease and taunt with silken flair
yet hide their poison: WASH AND WEAR.
Blessed Linen, Wool and Silk,
the likes of which are mother's milk
please keep me in your sacred shell
and save me from synthetic hell.
I come prepared with iron and board
as any knight with shield and sword
and would remain pure and chaste(though lonely)
if I could but read the words: DRY CLEAN ONLY.
On bended knee I plead, I beg
(while nursing an arthritic leg)
keep me save and free from harm
beneath your oh-so-natural arm.
If this aid you are ill to rend
I would settle for a blend.
P.S. But absolutely me no wanna
that vile nylon called, Qiana!
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