Mid-sixteenth century the walls
Are wood the shop is oak and gleaming
A cat is friendly also playful
Pulled by both of his front legs
A spitfire and true charmer
Breakfast wafts around the corner
Eggs and batter heat the warmer
Food on her face she eats a lot
A family sits to visit petticoats are
Not cheap and so perhaps worn
Are the same ones but cared for
Gracefully a time to visit a time
To laugh and get to know one another
A family setting invited are all
In this domain every color
Every face and every race
Off walks by one whom also
Nabs a hat from the coatrack
Positioned on her way out the door
Community and camaraderie
Haircuts too in the main room
Pre-Gibson girl the beginning
Coiffure of the swan shaped corsets
Way before and still not much
Money to be had or on the table
An aromatic future had no chance
For a conversation front and center
As day to day was much more
Likely a common adventure
Nothing wasted nothing spent
On nothing but to show
A daily doing has been done while
An occasional stranger wanders
In at dusk to rise again before the sun
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Poétique 