songanddancegirl

CHEAP FASHION FIX

CHEAP  FASHION  FIX       BLUES

It’s crazy  blue    deep river blue

without clouds   goes on forever     in every direction

Hovers over Bangladesh where

1,003 crushed    beneath floors      added haphazardly

Globalization was supposed to be

the great  equalizer         Don’t abandon them now

the papers read   Can it be  that a

3 yr. old child knows 100 brands

but cannot call a plant by name

While  freegans  bodydive in dumpsters

& share communal meals   Scavenging

is benighted  Consuming is for the blighted

And in the West everyone lies to their therapist

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“Skies are blue inside of you   The weather’s always fine

Everybody’s happy now  Yes everybody’s happy now”

Aldous Huxley    Brave New World  1932

Spring  2013

YOU GOTTA LOVE

YOU  GOTTA  LOVE      SOMEBODY

I know that I go   on   about this   But you

gotta love your hipsters    Ted Hughes said

that all poets have their  obsessional knots

and hipsters are one of mine   Daniel Bergner      (What Do Women Want?)  

(what have you got?)   calls his Brooklyn street:    hipster-ridden

My hipsters are repeatedly & relentlessly

goddamned beautiful    Take the young

Bardot lookalike across from me     Open

bleeding cuts on her feet    De rigueur  bare      in cobalt deck shoes

Skinnyjeans skinnyjacket  hair dirty-rooty       platinum

She fondles her bon bons lovingly ($24/doz)

Pale yellow  minty green   I imagine that when

very young  she was already crying over     humanity

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Spring  2013