Submit A Title Contest

The following is a contest to submit a fitting title for the poem below.  Submissions must be made to the sponsor: cdquietqueen at gmail.com.  Winning entry gets $250 cash.  Contact the contest sponsor for more details.

What Length?? 

The first time I heard it, my ears hurt

The second time wasn’t much better

Perhaps I was misunderstanding?

Were they mispronouncing a letter?

It soon became clearer and clearer

That teens everywhere really meant it!

Elegant, classy, and tasteful skirt-lengths

Are simply old and fermented. 

The length that once made you a “lady”

Protecting with honor and strength

Has sadly become most abhorrent;

“But Mommy, it’s duty length”! 

My spelling gives it a “kaf z’chus”

But the horrible way that it sounds!

Like something you’d rather jump over

Than step on, if it’s on the ground. 

Is once-standard class that repulsive?

“Four inches below the knee”

You may think it’s old or un-trendy

But why that awful “duty”? 

Would anyone buy a new lipstick

Called “Peanut Butter And Mold”?

Would anyone try on a jacket

Called “Never Gonna Be Sold”? 

A wig called “Shlumpy And Nebby”?

A coffee called “Bitter And Gross”?

So why would a girl try that skirt nowadays

When you’re practically holding your nose? 

It’s time to courageously lay this to rest

And bury this label forever

It’s bringing uncalled-for disdain

To a thing of great beauty – a treasure! 

The length that so closely protects you

And keeps us all safe and secure

Must lose its unseemly derision

It’s not ugly or awful; it’s pure! 

I challenge each one of you out there

Even you - with the cynical smirk

To think up a flattering title

For the length that we really can’t shirk

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The girl or the woman who sends in the fitting title for the "length-name" poem which earns the most votes wins $250 in cash.  Submissions must be made to the sponsor: cdquietqueen at gmail.com.

Contest ends June 15th,2013

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