Love Poem: The Fashion Zebra
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Written by: Ann Foster

The Fashion Zebra

The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent my whole life avoiding the title. 
I crossed every tee, dotted all the eyes… 
and followed rules real, and make believe…
Now. It no longer matters. 

I am exactly what you see. 
I write about the weather, cooking mushrooms in broth, 
the underwater zoo in Williams, along with other various,
worthy subjects of interest to no one. 

I carry a phone and often use it as a coaster. 
It brings me messages once or twice a month 
and does not honestly believe me, 
when I say, “your fired”.
Alas, I still have a landline, to find it, 
when I am yet, desperate for its call. 

I wear pj’s to the market, my bathing suit to the post box. 
I paint murals and laugh at the way leaves fall from trees, in patterns. 
I am not longing to grow up, get married, have kids, nor put things into order. 
I want to splash in pools, taste ice-cream made from green tea and hunt for spiders.
The world is no longer full of boundaries to be broken, 
They have been erased. 
Completely.
I am free.