Mistaken Identities

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1  CARY GRANT

Perfect hair
Perfect tan
The twentieth century’s
Leading Man

Retired thief
Accidental spy
Marketing man
Private eye

Complex look
Always the same
A cypher read
Many ways

A cultured accent
Mid Atlantic
A sexual riddle
Enigmatic

An elegant actor
An acrobat
A metrosexual
Soft-footed cat

Mistaken identity
Cash + Cary?
Mistaken identity
Five times married?

Cockney heart
Cosmopolitan soul
Constructed character
Never whole?

Suave + graceful
A feminine man
That perfect hair
That perfect tan

2  DAVID BOWIE

Perfect hair
Perfect tan
The twentieth century’s
Zeitgeist man

Shameless thief
Astute spy
Marketing man
Private guy

Complex look
Always new
A riddle read
In interview

A changing accent
The singer’s disguise
A sexual cypher
Worldly wise

An elegant actor
An acrobat
A metrosexual
Mime-versed cat

Mistaken identity
Chameleon
Mistaken identity
Comedian

Cockney heart
Cosmopolitan soul
Constructed character
Never whole?

The outsider we feel
We are inside
Sanctioning us
To be, not hide

Suave + graceful
A feminine man
That perfect hair
That perfect tan

 

© Ian Lilburne 2016