Fashion

a poem by Tanushree Nair

Fashion is what people are, fashion is
how people shout, dance
and strut about.

Fashion is what people wear (and fear)
how people dine and wine,
how do they spend their dime and time.
Fashion is charity, climbing up society.
Fashion is cool as cucumbers,
honey, olive oil and money
that are a jump ahead on your neighbours
who are not fashionable instead!

Fashion is jealousy, being rejected in poetry contests
(for not being ‘politically correct’)
as part of a larger conspiracy!!
Fashion is to be booed on campus
for studying BA and not CA or even MBA.
Fashion is to fall in and out of love.

Fashion is to write ‘luv’.
Fashion is to send you an e-mail
when I can very well talk to you, and
fashion is to write poetry when
old-fashioned prose will do!!!