Mood Clothes 1. & 2. Poem by Margaret Alice

Mood Clothes 1.

Reading science fiction furtively
“This Place Has No Atmosphere”
by Paula Danziger, set in 2057;
live models parading mood clothes
changing colour reflecting the wearer’s
feelings – then the protagonist

Is accosted by a young guy, she is
thankful she’s not wearing those,
not very sure what colour ‘nervous’
would be; but I know, having been
plagued by red cheeks and other
gawky signs when I was young…


Mood Clothes 2.

Her name is Aurora
and his is Matthew,
he took her for ice
cream; they thought
of new flavours –
lizard lemon and
fingernail fudge

They laughed so much,
then he asked her to
the homecoming dance,
said BESP, Beginning
Extrasensory Perception,
allowed him to figure
out she might like him

She was delighted; if
she had been wearing
mood clothes right then,
they would have been
shimmering in all the
colours of the spectrum…

Paula Danziger “This Place Has No Atmosphere”
Butler and Tanner,1987; pp.14 - 16