Why I Wore The White Coat Today

April 10, 2008, 1:30 pm; posted by
Filed under Articles, Featured, Poetry, Steve  | 6 Comments

Bweinh! celebrates National Poetry Month.

we will NEVER
sell the same dress
for the same event
said the ad for the store i might lie to avoid
and i guess it made sense

a dress is expensive
and taste is subjective
so to get an exclusive
possessing cachet
is largely elusive
(you’ll pay)

but i thought — as a man —
that every dress is the same dress
different fabric but the same cloth
different baubles but the same nature
from the short black number
to the long-sleeved frump

all are sheaths and all are sheets
on which the wearer will project
an image that will then reflect
just who they are
or wish
to be

so at an event
no dress is an island, entire to itself
in glitzy sizzle

and all the guarantees in the world
do not make a hanger unique

they sell you a dress
a suit, a car, a job, a home, a life
but they can never sell you the same one
when you are the difference


Comments

6 Comments to “Why I Wore The White Coat Today”

  1. Dsweetgoober on April 10th, 2008 4:52 pm

    Is this original? Cool, I didn’t know you wrote poetry too.

  2. Steve on April 10th, 2008 4:58 pm

    It is, and before today, I wouldn’t say that I did, other than the forum haikus…

  3. Chloe on April 10th, 2008 6:40 pm

    Whoa dang, dude. Sweet.

  4. Chloe on April 10th, 2008 6:42 pm

    (By the way, the above comment can be roughly translated as, “Your stunning sense of cadence and rhyme make the poem beg to be read alloud.”)

  5. Connie on April 11th, 2008 9:04 am

    That’s right. I am the difference! Nice job first born.

  6. Connie on April 11th, 2008 9:05 am

    But, um…I was was going to wear MY white coat today…

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