Describe your favorite fashion from days of yore or current trends you think are stylin’.
The prompt for today reminds me of a tragic story written in the form of a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray:
There lived a sage in days of yore
And he a handsome pigtail wore
But wondered much and sorrowed more,
Because it hung behind him.
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He mused upon this curious case
And swore he’d change the pigtail’s place,
And have it hang it at his face,
Not dangling there behind him.
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Say he, “The mystery I’ve found-
Says he, “The mystery I’ve found!
I’ll turn me round”-he turned him round;
But still it hung behind him.
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Then round and round, and out and in,
All day the puzzled sage did spin;
In vain- it mattered not a pin-
The pigtail hung behind him.
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And right and left and round about,
And up and down and in and out
He turned; but still the pigtail stout
Hung steadily behind him.
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Having read, Mr. Thackeray’s Tragic story, I recall mine which is no less tragic.
I was a child who had no care
How I must fix my long bushy hair
I let it dwell on my face for good
My Dad didn’t like how it looked.
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So he thought of a wonderful plan
He asked the barber to shape it like a fan
Next day my classmates surrounded me
Each took turns to make fun of me.
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I came home crying and complained
My Dad was clearly embarrassed
He called the barber to fix my hair
The barber said, She’ll have to wait a year.
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Meanwhile I waited a whole year
The Barber returned to fix my hair
He kept it short for he said, “short hair
Looks better and it doesn’t need much care.
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Sabethville 