Day 2 Intro to poetry wordpress challenge
Prompt: A face
Device: Alliteration
The Retail Face
A plastered on smile,
The latest in style.
She’s never grumpy or glib.
She’ll offer you socks
And tick off each box,
Of phrases cheerily chirped.
You look good in that.
It goes with this hat.
Are you paying cash or with card?
Become an insider,
an email subscriber,
Sign up to our convenient club.
Won’t react to the rude
The fussy or crude
She’ll keep the smile pleasantly pasted.
I think, as I shop,
When did they swap,
Humans for these mindless machines?
But I look in her eyes
And note with surprise
Her eyes mismatch with her mouth
Yes, her eyes are her own
They say take me home
Away from this tiring tedium
Where I can shout.
Scream and sing out.
I am mad and I’m real.
and I don’t give a damn that you don’t care for that colour.
It doesn’t come in ANY OTHER.
Leigh Roswen 
Great stuff Leigh. You are indeed a poet.
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Thanks Tricia. Actually have greater appreciation already of poets. Wrangling words into verse is taxing.
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