Control Garment
Madam, this is recommended:
Sherwood’s Adjustable Bustle and Skirt.
Eliminates compression
from the female spine and heart.
Or Thomson’s Patent Glove Fit Corset,
First For Comfort, almost undetectable,
gives graceful contour to the form
with added snaps and latch for safety.
Virtuous young women welcome
busk, suspenders, whalebone, lacing.
For the sake of reputation,
Madam, this is recommended.
Kathy Gee only started submitting works for publication in 2011. She organised the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings poetry trail in 2012, enjoys performance, and her blog www.wordstring.co.uk is an experimental vehicle for occasional video poems.