Sit There Looking Pretty

Fashion Statement

Sit There Looking Pretty

Sunglasses hide the truth behind your eyes

Sombrero tilted on tomorrows styled doll

Lip stick red rouge alarms the curious

Customers curse your beauty as they pass

From every angle shoppers lurk in isles

California earthquakes shake the store apart

People run in fear as you stay frozen there  

From the storage room new clothes emerge

Clerks fly to fondle you with silken skirts

Fabrics to make you real as life and just as ready

On the show room in living colors black

Scarves served up by adoring clumsy staff

Layers of lovely colored patterns stream on you 

Blouses green, a pink negligee for Spring

My perfect figurine

Stay fixed there while I study you my love

Every curve, don't speak a word or move too much   

That which defines you in perfection on the stool

My plastic queen I love your lingerie so dainty soft                    

But not as much as you for being pretty

Pretending to be alive as earthquakes rise

A figurine, a doll, a figment of my imagination 

Mannequin 

Reviews

[R.E. Ray]

I like this one, Earl. I'm left thinking how much we secretly adore mannequins--some on the showroom floor, others in the dark storage room. They're pretty, dressed up, and untouched by human emotion and the wreckage around them. They "sit there looking pretty" while we dress them in envy. Nice work.

[Earl Schumacker]

Hi Robert, Thank you so much. I appreciate your comments. Glad you enjoyed it. I have absolutely no interest in fashion so I don't know why I am writing on this subject. I did like the concept of giving the mannequin artificial life via the earthquake. That was fun. Have a great day. Earl