Rustoleum and Oil of Olay

For Delmar, you inspire me.

Put on my dancing shoes
just after another run,
Superwoman picked up
a spiky metaphor
on the way home
from dropping the kids
off at school,
threw it in her bag
with the Oil of Olay and
the rustoleum,
she needed it to
gouge out all the memories
from the inside
of her mind,
she dug and she
picked till she
thought she would
go blind,

but she finally did it,
and she had Delmar
to thank.

Author's Note

an ongoing conversation. and in honour of Delmar, I left the image a tree, which he claims bears a remarkable resemblance to himself.:)

Reviews

[Pryde Foltz]

Like gets out like … a little olay helps with the slimy ones. Loved the title on this one, loved it>

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much. There are so many inspiring people in here.

[NoelHC]

Oil of Olay and rustoleum, because sometimes you have to do it on your own to get it done. This is analogous to life, and written from deep within. Great work, ma'am.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much.

[Frieda P]

This reminds me of I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan... take care of rust, and still be a woman too....good on Delmar! :)

[Lyn Anderson]

yeah, Delmar is a unique individual. I am still trying to decipher his review

[Delmar Cooper]

It's the profile like that precipice in , where?, New Hampshire? The one that finally fell off the mountain.
Seriously, look. There at the bottom is where the chin used to be...

[Lyn Anderson]

Hilarious. Sometimes, you confuse the hell out of me, but I love you anyway.

[Delmar Cooper]

" I left the image a tree, which he claims bears a remarkable resemblance to himself.:)"
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" I left the image a tree, which he claims bears a remarkable resemblance to himself.:)"

The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile,[1] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States, that, when viewed from the north, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. The rock formation was 1,200 feet (370 m) above Profile Lake, and measured 40 feet (12 m) tall and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide. The site is located in the town of Franconia.

The first recorded mention of the Old Man was in 1805. It collapsed on May 3, 2003.[2]

[Lyn Anderson]

Okay, I get it now. Smarty pants.

[Ruth]

There is a loveliness to this and also the need to remain beautiful though hurt feels ugly internally...as always, open to interpretation, but I love about poetry :) x

[Lyn Anderson]

You always tread very closely to my inner self.

[Ruth]

Then that's the sign of a good poem :) ♥