Going Gaga for The Poetry Bus

TFE's Poetry Bus is rolling around again and this week tickets will be collected by the author of Pure fiction. The prompt she gave us began with a poem by Thomas Hardy followed with these instructions necessary for completion in order to hop aboard:

Now write a poem about a moment of transformation.
It doesn’t necessarily have to take the form of a journey, like the poem above. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a personal transformation.
It can be about something as simple as freshly laid eggs transformed into a breakfast – A seed transformed into a plant – or a poem about a person transformed by circumstance into something completely new.

Now throw in a recurring line here and there.
And before and after pictures would be nice :)

So, here is the strange saga of my virtual transformation - pure fiction, indeed. In case you are wondering, the braces are real and will be real for about another nine months (a type of transformation-in-the-making).

My Virtual Makeover (over and over)

If clothes make the man
then what makes the chick?

Woman's hair is her crowning glory.

Need it be your own hair
that turns heads here from there?
Would you change if you could?
You can make them all stare;
Go to InStyle.com Hollywood.

Makeover you - here a click, there a click.
Transform your plain face quicker than quick
into looks that are sweet, slick, or whorey.

Woman's hair is her crowning glory.

Try on the tresses of Charlize and Zooey
Be a star. Be a dreamer; time's wastin'.
In just a few Swift tick-tocks 
Model Heidi's luscious long locks.
Then be Jessica. Be Jenny. Be sizzlin'.

If clothes make the man
then what makes the chick?

See how you look as theatrical Cate
or, wearing Ellen's short cut, maybe gayer.
Be thou Madonna with honey winged bangs
or Mrs. Tom Cruise in her glossed bob of late -

Or sample something far wilder and way grayer . . .

There is no greater proof of the power of hair
Than the look made by one Lady Gaga.
Go crazy with this one! -- Do the eyes and lips too.
Play up the top knot, that silver bone doga . . .

Woman's hair is her crowning glory.
Hair is what makes the chick.
It is the celebrity's shtick.
And that's the end of my stylin' story.

© MLydiaM

Virtual hair styles from InStyle.com of celebrities left to right:

Charlize Theron; Zooey Deschanel; Taylor Swift; Jessica Biel; Jennifer Lopez;

Heidi Klum; Cate Blanchett, Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Katie Holmes

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