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Beautiful Blue Blouse

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In the store it was beautiful,
So blue and so new.
Hanging on the rack,
The blouse was calling my name.
I removed it from the rack
And peered at the tag in delight.
Half-price and on clearance?
How could I resist?
I brought it to the counter
And swiped my credit card.

But in the car ride home
I looked in the passenger seat
At the pretty blue blouse,
And began to have some doubt.
I took it in the house,
And was dumbfounded for a moment.
How could something
That looked so great on the rack
Look so terrible in my home?
I felt ashamed and discouraged
When I realized that I
Had pictured the blouse
On a mannequin.

But I decided to keep it,
So I took out the scissors
To remove the last piece
Of The New.
I swiped off the tags,
And, alas, I was right:
The blouse would not change me,
And I changed it.
It was now a part of me,
And now lives in the Closet
of the other Clothes That Don't Work,
Because it can't change me,
And neither can I.
Inspired by yesterday's shopping trip...  I promise this goes in a different direction than you think ;)
Also, this is the fiftieth poem I've published here!  I was so nervous about posting my first one, afraid that my poetry would be to dark to be liked...  And now I post A LOT of poetry!  So happy I do.  
Happy deviating :) 
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19andMugsy's avatar
nice, you know i never read a poem like this before, but it was very well done :)