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You choose.
For your walk along the harbor today
you can wear the button-up blouse
or the sleeveless stretch tee.
Keep in mind showing bare sculpted shoulders
with a cinnamon tan
will earn a lingering grin
from the kabuki cab driver.
When given a stranger's appreciative glance
it's a currency exchange
to give one back.
A gesture such as that
will send his self-esteem.
Decide now: the button-up blouse
or the sleeveless stretch tee.
Here's your chance to commit
random acts of sweetness.
This poem first appeared in Moon Journal Press.
Used here with the author's permission.
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Shoshauna Shy began writing at the age of eight, was recruited by a muse in her early 40s and, since then, has since published five poetry collections and a wealth of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Her poetry has been studied in classrooms, recited in church sermons, translated into Chinese, discussed by book clubs, made into videos, and produced inside taxi cabs and on the backside of city buses. Not a monogamous writer, Shoshauna works on as many as 7-11 projects at a time. The founder of Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, she lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
    
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The gift pretty women have, the choice - to use or not, as they wish...while they can ~ Interesting poem. Judy
Posted 05/13/2015 04:57 PM
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Cindy:
nice to see a poem by her in here; I have read her work before and like it very much
Posted 05/13/2015 11:38 AM
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