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Feb 2016
The future's couture,
are you sure about that?

The 21st century is hidden between billfolds of misery
Lancome hanging on by her nails while Dior roars along
doing 90,
so long to my jeans and the tank top
I'm swapping them for something that's real hot.

Suits lined and silk shirts for me
while she
dons the latest sensation
fresh from the catwalk
a fabulous creation.


But there are pitfalls of that I'm aware,
and being aware, I tread
carefully there.

The 21st century
full of mistakes and
it takes only one to
bring me down.
interesting to me anyway that I always thought of Lancome as she
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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