Another poem inspired by our Most Fashionable Heroine/Heroine of Fashion.
Adore her fashion.
ADORE IT!
A Self-Help Guide to a Diamond Heart Necklace
Be beautiful.
Be acquired.
Be male or female.
Be fashionable.
Be very fashionable.
Be drawn to the things you like.
Be a very special part.
Be the answer to all your problems.
Be three days a week.
Be careful – read your labels!
Best on your skin.
Best to choose fingernail.
Best thing you can eat: predigested.
Best advice I could give any woman: keep her figure.
Try and cut down what you’re eating.
Try and cut the fat out.
Try to keep away from any fat at all.
Remember: if you don’t eat fat, you don’t.
Remember the advice given to you, vegetables, fruit, and grain.
Remember: no milk.
Do something about a great deal.
Do with feeling.
Do five minutes again.
Do it watching television so you won’t get bored.
Do stick colors with your wardrobe.
Do your eyebrow pencil.
Do take out your eyes.
May 1, 2008 at 9:14 am |
The repetition here is PERFECT. I couldn’t get it to work in my Poem of Fashion/Fashion Poem. It works so well with the “eat no fat” commanding.
I think I will transcribe the entirety of Brenda Dickson’s “Welcome to My Home” video and post it on our blog. I think it should serve as a writing prompt in every creative writing class across the country.
May 1, 2008 at 11:10 am |
I don’t know what I love most about Brenda: her residence in the boardertown of Insane High Fashion, or her devotion to her own advice. After all, anyone who shows up to court with rosy plum lips and fights for her 11 boxes of wardrobe is a serious Grand Dame of Fashion. Ah, what we could learn by sitting at her feet!
So many good one-liners in this poem that it’s in danger of becoming absorbed completely into my daily vocabulary. Do take out your eyes. The entire piece reads like Proverbs (the Proverbs of High Fashion, if you will).