Janet Brice Parker
The Closet is Clothes to Being Full
I shop in the thrift stores
and other re-used haunts.
I’m afraid I buy
most anything I want.
Then I go from cheap
to the Free People store.
There were plaid pants there
that I could not ignore.
My shopping has gotten so bad,
I think, “I’m a Material Girl.”
Now I’m starting to order
dresses from Magnolia Pearl.
The thing I haven’t revealed
is I’m almost eighty-two,
but people think I’m sixty—
so what’s an old hippie to do?
I’ll keep right on through my nineties,
wearing flowers, plaids, and pearls.
You’re never too old for Free People—
or to be a Material Girl.
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