Sad Old Drag Queen

He looked in the mirror
How gorgeous he was
With his sequined spangly skirt
Covering his hairy legs
And his suspenders
Only slightly soiled.

About This Poem

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

Comments

Geezer

5 years 5 months ago

I'm not sure...

it is a picture I want in my head, but he certainly has the right to dress any way he likes.~ Geezer.
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Gracy

5 years 5 months ago

Hi Edna, I think your poem is

Hi Edna, I think your poem is too short to get the gist of what is in the writer's mind. Or the reader's, for that matter. As it is, it doesn't cast a good impression, although I think you're just showing how that man must see or think of himself.
"Sad Old Drag Queen" does not attract me as a title. Old fashioned expression. With all due respect, Edna, I always read you and comment. Gracy