We are girls!

[PrinceMyshkin]

We are girls
with our long,
loose-flowing hair,
our flimsy halter tops,
shapely bare legs
streaming out
from our short shorts.

We are girls
and we own
the summer city!



Jerry Newman © 02Jul08

[firefangled]

We are girls
with our long,
loose-flowing hair,
our flimsy halter tops,
shapely bare legs
streaming out
from our short shorts.

We are girls
and we own
the summer city!



Jerry Newman © 02Jul08

A contemporary condensation of The Girls In Their Summer Dresses. Very nicely done.

[Sweets America]

I don't know why, but this somehow made me think of "We real cool", by Gwendolyn Brooks:


We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

[CdnReader]

We are girls
with our long,
loose-flowing hair,
our flimsy halter tops,
shapely bare legs
streaming out
from our short shorts.

We are girls
and we own
the summer city!



Jerry Newman © 02Jul08

Cute ... and summery. :)

[PrinceMyshkin]

A contemporary condensation of The Girls In Their Summer Dresses. Very nicely done.

YES! By Irwin Shaw! I think there was a small nervous tickle in my consciousness as I was writing this, though I hadn't read that story (for the 2nd or 3rd time) in easily 20 years! What a deft bit of writing that was, don't you agree? And if you have access to the first volume of collected NYer stories you could do me -and yourself - a favour by looking up "First Marriage" by St.Clair McKelway,

No, I just went to look. That volume has some other St.Clair McKelway story, but that seemingly off-hand way "First Marriage" ends seldom fails to make my heart clench!

What a couple of graybeards you and I are (ok, ok, I more so than you, Junior)!

[goldenrod]

Let us hope that certain things never change, and that your reference remains immutable. Even in the face of the truism: "This too, shall pass!"


goldenrod.

[Umbilical]

What 'bout the girls who aren't those girls?
What about the women who aren't women yet?


:) hi.

[blazeofglory]

We are girls
with our long,
loose-flowing hair,
our flimsy halter tops,
shapely bare legs
streaming out
from our short shorts.

We are girls
and we own
the summer city!



Jerry Newman © 02Jul08

Does it reflect all girls or it simply specify the types the poet and some she or he sees. Do not simply generalize with the sexes.

[Umbilical]

I'm not generalizing.