What if we hadn't women's clothes to laugh at? What if the ladies all wore coats and derbies, And all wore trousers of the self-same pattern, And sheet-iron shirts and collars coldly formal, And looked all just alike, the way we men do? What if? It wouldn't be an hour, a minute, Before the women would do something to them, Poke in the derby, give the shirt a ruffle, Discover new alignments for the collar, Invert the trousers and create them graceful! Because, you know, it's not with clothes we're dealing, Not fashion-plates nor fabrics nor cosmetics, But, back of all, and just the same without them, Mysterious, adorable, perplexing, Absurd, divine, kaleidoscopic Woman! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CENTER OF GRAVITY by DAVID IGNATOW A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON I SING OF LOVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ABU SALAMMAMM - A SONG OF EMPIRE by EZRA POUND |