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Friday, November 20, 2009

Plain Vanilla Girl

By Justine C. Tajonera

There go the Cherry Chocolate
and the Almond Swirl
girls,
their skirts swishing,
their heels clicking,
a complicated stew
of perfume, designer
hand bags, and
glossy tinted hair.

I don't know
when I started my
state of
Plain Vanilla.
There was a time
that I aspired to be
Bubblegum and then
Coffee Brickle.


Along the way,
I dropped down
to the basics,
dangerously close to
generic.


But Plain Vanilla
works for me:
pretty much a canvas
for the day.

Really, I'm not
Plain Vanilla because
it tops the charts.

I choose my Plain
Vanilla self
just because.



Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3797233888/

1 comment:

Mercedes Camacho Peterson said...

Love you, plain vanilla girl :) But honestly you're a much more complicated flavor -- let's see - you're vanilla with vanilla bean --those lovely little specks define your character :)

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