NaPoMo poem #7
This is the seventh of the poems I will be writing each day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after their initial posting.
Ziggy
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ivory silk french-cuffed bar-collared shirt
soft as butter sweet as cream dessert
cuff links of diamonds and pure white gold
a heady treasure – bourgeois and bold
pearl-stick-pinned satin tie knotted tight
elegant as paris on a saturday night
desert-tan gabardine three-pleat slacks
euro-cuffed razor-creased sharp as tacks
snakeskin braces buttoned sterling bright
hip and killer as a rattler’s bite
black-patton striders with alligator spats
steppin’ out classy as the coolest cats
fine pinstriped linen coat double-breasted
uptown savvy and velvet vested
full-blocked rolled-brim felt chapeau
in the deepest red of a fine bordeaux
he was crisp and smooth as a dry martini
they all called him ziggy
but his name was bob
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rob kistner © 2009
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