Was She Just Seventeen?

"Elastic", said she, "forgives
all our offences readily.
Elastic-sided morality's got the stretch
that lets it encompass every contingency."

Her elastic sided boots
converged in sharply pointed toes.
Her stylish skirts were parodies
of redundant notions of modesty.
Her hair, though, was overdressed,
many anticipated the fall
that her liberal use of mousse
miraculously prevented.

When he saw her standing there,
he came over strange. Suddenly
he had his whole life to re-arrange.