You
wake up one day,
and
think beige―
economically gather all the color
and drop it at Goodwill―
because you're taking the plunge, baby.
Or maybe it just comes gradually,
over several laissez-faire years,
one well-crafted piece at a time.
When the hair goes all-white,
salon-beige is the politically correct option―
or at least something in champagne.
It's easy since there's no bother
with coordinating wardrobe― it's all the same.
"Honey, does this make me look
beige?"
tk/May 2013
Many thanks to the talented R.A.D. Stainforth for reading this poem.
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| photo by Togan Gokbakar |
I bought a new Toyota Carina (Asian model) in Singapore in 1981. It was beige. A friend saw it and exclaimed, "Oh, BORING beige!" I was crushed. I thought beige was a kind of grown-up thing. Maybe that's why I bought red shoes last week: Now that I'm "grown up" I need/want some color in my life! Screw age appropriate! ;)
ReplyDelete..ah, tough times do really come & you struggle with how tricky it is to see how misery laughs... perhaps, a total bounce back is needed... smiles...
ReplyDeleteyes you def have to watch those years and plainness creeping up on you...fight it!! fab photo and great read Tess.x
ReplyDeleteOh, how I giggled at this one! Champagne color hair ... champagne in a flute, it's all good!
ReplyDeleteAge brings benefits!!
did you know, it's the color of the universe
ReplyDeleteComes a time, though, you don't want a color to clash with your personality. Beige. It's like a neutral's neutral.
ReplyDeleteExcellent interpretation of the pic. I wonder if the world really did change colour? :-)
ReplyDeleteExcellent view of this photograph!
ReplyDeletePS I'll never be beige.... Bring on the color.
At one point I had a beige sofa w/a brown carpet. When I moved, I added lots more color. My friend commented, oh now I see what your taste is! I hadn't even noticed how boring the first place had been decorated! At least no one could see the stains on the carpet!
ReplyDeleteBeige, rhymes with age. As presented in my take on them, I know that George and Martha would approve of their hair being compared to champaign. And can you please get them two more glasses?
ReplyDeleteMy '99 Toyota is beige, and the color has held up better than I have. Your take was both warm and witty.
ReplyDeleteGive me red, any day!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't help laughing at this one- the beige age will never grab me if I live to be a hundred! It's one colour that makes me feel - and look- dead as a dodo.
ReplyDeleteThere is a sad elegance enlivened by a wry smile in your words.
ReplyDeleteI like beige - you can put any colour with it! I love that last line.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the very word 'Beige' should be eradicated from the dictionary. It makes me think of coats, jumpers, and interior walls; but all in a bad way!
ReplyDeleteThe beige, the bone the white the white the off white the ivory, it is all a saving grace !
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Beige is good..it renders me invisible! A red scarf brings me back...so much truthiness here...
ReplyDeleteThis is one of your funnier poems! It made me lol, and I only use that literally! "Ah, it is time! Let me redo my entire wardrobe!" Does that moment really happen in people's lives? Is there really any other explanation?
ReplyDeleteBeige ... the default hue ... haha! Good one, Tess!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic, I was smiling the whole time. God I wish I could write as beautifully as you do. Where I live I see a lot of elderly people with outrageously dyed hair, high school rebellion-style. I actually think its wonderful =)
ReplyDeleteWonderful words, slide easy on the mind.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I like beige!
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Better than black and white...
ReplyDeletevery clever metaphor using the color beige for sort of staying neutral on everything and not really taking a stance, love the last line. this poem has layers.
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