Michalangelo and hangers

If you fold your shirts 

Read no further for these lines are

For those who hang

Like to hang

Or would like to hang more.

Not all hanging is the same: 

We are familiar with the terry cloth towel that hangs from a hook

The hanging when you hang out or  just

Hanging in the air before the B-Ball goes Swish

But for the real hard core hangers we are talking about wire, wood, plastic contraptions that

Hang our clothes, day in, day out

Using imitation, restless and straight shoulders

These hangers hang and have been hanging over centuries

(Copy of petrified hangers found in Lascaux, circa l7,300 BC)

Whether be it the leather loincloth or a frilly blouse 

Every hanger has its purpose and no two are alike.

The light twisted wire

The imposing wood

The puffy soft cloth

And the imposing clamps for pants or skirts

Provide a tolless testament to Time and Service

Yet hangers can be polymorphous:

In the news we heard 

Of a jet crashing into a hangar!

And in Mommie Dearest a hanger is an icon of female abuse and self-abuse

When it comes to hangers there are many stories and mysteries

One of the greatest being Michelangelo's David 

Who was commissioned at the age of 26 to carve out

A monumental block releasing what has become one of the most

Famous sculptures of all time.

Michalangelo originally had hung a pleated toga on his personal marble  hanger 

But the light fabric is told to have excited the model during long poses

Erecting his penis beyond human proportions 

This angered the artist and he decided to wisk it away leaving

David as nude as a baby

A true masterpiece even though some critics may say he is "not well hung."

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