A businessman’s silhouette. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You are well pressed
Sleek lines
Barely visible
Controlled pinstripes
White collar
Jacket crisp
Waiting in a line
For the morning coffee
iPad glowing
News rushing in
Rushing out
Brittle
Technological
Like you
Your eyebrows
Neatly manicured
Cufflinks shining
Modest light
You look the part
Like out of a
Catalogue
Which makes me wonder
As I watch you
Are you more than
Just a suit?
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All rights Reserved
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I always have wondered when I was a suit and found most are just a suit. I now wear flip flops, shorts and T-shirt and wonder if similar dressed are more than shorts, flip flops and a T shirt. So far I think not.
Maybe the apparel reflects the person and their life rather than the other way round then? Thanks for commenting!! 🙂 🙂
Does the suit make the man or does the man make the suit look good? 🙂
Depends on the man I suppose! 🙂 🙂 I think suits look good for the most part, it’s just a particular type of suit wearer I was tilting at with this poem. 🙂
I don’t suit suits. The very name ‘suit’ is ironic for me. Whenever I’ve been forced to wear a suit I always end up looking like Worzel Gummidge.
Embrace your individuality my friend!! 🙂 🙂
delightful – one of the many joys of retirement is no more suits
Yes!!! Than you! 🙂 🙂
That should have said ‘thank you’, not than you…LOL
this is a great question to ponder? Many suits I know are just that – status quo – I do not know many otherwise.
Most I know are very ambitious, which tends towards conservatism, but of course there are some that break the mold! 🙂 🙂
Contrary to what Shakespeare thought, the apparel doth NOT proclaim the man – but you know that, which is why you penned this poem of perspicuity. Nicely done.
Thanks Mike!!! Much appreciated!! 🙂 🙂
I remember suits, when living the single life in the city….. yet I am fairly distanced from them out in the bush, pretty much a non event. I love your words.
Thank you so much, that is so kind of you! 🙂
of course they are, they jus don’t know it 😉
LOL, yes! 🙂 🙂 Thanks!
Having spent years on Wall Street and eliminating starch from my life years ago, I no longer chafe at the neck or the false image. Love this piece.
Thanks so much Eric!! 🙂 🙂