This is my mother's red Morroco leather manicure set.
Here are the contents, most of them a complete mystery to me
but presumably not to her.
It sat on a proper dressing table.
And she sat in front of it,
properly.
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Here is the sort of table that would do it justice and
there is the sort of person I might have been,
glimpsed in the mirror adjusting my earrings.
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This is the contemplative pose that I might have struck while
toying with an emery board,
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKocpjGsjtbEFZzHMUefIMBU9KqMDOj7XoyDtVs_mh-85Hwxd4dvO_RURIvnd2t8-lhRh6BiZTweb1LLJAlbs_cTRG2UHigxDBmP64GPdVShh_gpq-azjBV7YqJDkeyoYKTBTo1PhBIA4/s400/CBE-75047.jpg)
or applying make up.
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There's that deeply self-absorbed gaze again,
the one that says,
'There's really no hurry'.
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'Admire your pearls.'
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTqYT3hI3TDTWt-TM2UFTPzySrF_b65apLQEL-y5aWWOmy0riHabae_LSWcRK02n90GeggYUzi2rt1uaYfHeH-NdtHdU5_HffqQAsKStKttwDwCckkrsmjylKSLVdMVYVETv_ic11-csg/s400/CH-344424-1.jpg)
'Brush your hair - 100 strokes each night.'
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOk2JtSgwMMSbIm_dCg4A65DIXRzSnt0yVNhmexwiuG2dXfZjtZNMwTw3WJMJOEsJdSaCQ9z7Kba9gAUW1BjmkXLdRKFdOLGIKjz3-gwLmEW-o_1_pknJKbLt5YFCGLc7pwoXlVe0P9_o/s400/XIR-37010.jpg)
'Powder your face.'
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogKT6erZX3xdFROKdYuqD8jfTbXlmAJieBA1r20XO1Ni7_FRnnlczNxUaIjZTLbe_P1R2V1IQiP-bWuvKsaVBaNjZ1aQSWsQSK3hbBCRI6k65o96SW1XnbxIncptbxTb3jCM2eAP8fzk/s400/XIR-188840.jpg)
'Put on your hat.'
'The world can wait.'
"The world can wait"...yes!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove all the images:)
Hope you have a good weekend, Lucille!