I admire the use of form here, the effortless way this breezes along. Very skillful.
I wish I liked the message. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting, but this seems to be a poem bemoaning change...bring back the days when men wore suits, people dressed for success and therefore acted...professionally? Did everyone act professionally "back then?" Where women (Kay) didn't play games? tease you with tight jeans and then turn down your advances? Do wearing snug jeans and saying "Call me Kay" invite sexual advances? And those Harvard brutes in chino... Maybe I'm in bad humour this morning...but I'm not feeling the nostalgia. And maybe I'm just taking this too seriously...it is the Light Verse Bakeoff after all. But this pushes a number of unpleasant buttons for me personally...despite the flawless technique.
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