high fashion
After Don DeLillo’s Coming Sun. Mon. Tues.
The boy insults him beautifully it comes out like high fashion it is a graffitied
Galliano corset The man blinks like a
drugged pig he doesn’t know what day it is
But the boy knows it is the start of his youth a canvas for his spleen
hits the man deaf philistine
The boy moves on goes to his room an early adolescent poster
“Seize the day”
The boy goes to a dive bar picks up a girl she’s hurting
he calls it art They dig their feet in wet sand
“Seize the day” The girl walks towards
frothing waves Art is fleeting it will pass They will understand
They come and go The boy carries her body
like a velvet gown