In
the 50s and 60s
it
was
the
size of the car
the
model of the car
the
newness of the car;
it
was
the
size of the house
the
furnishings of the house
(modern/contemporary/just
like
the magazines/none
of
that old-fashioned stuff);
it
was
the
clothes and style
like
Hepburn (Audrey)
like
Kennedy (Jackie)
and
wanting everyone
to
know
In
the 00s and the 10s
it
is
the
voltage of the car,
hybridzed,
it
is
the
greenness of the house,
solarized
and efficiency
energized
it
is
clothes
and style
like
everyone
like
no one
it
is
the
organic-ness of the food
the
localness of the food
the
rawness of the milk
and
wanting everyone
to
know.
Then
it was
conspicuous
consumption
now
it is
conspicuous
virtue
Over
at dVerse
Poets, the Poetics prompt is “taboo” – to write a poem about a subject that
is taboo, politically incorrect, and/or more than likely to offend some
significant part of the population. To see more “taboo” poems, please visit dVerse
Poets.
