The Hideous Chair
This hideous
upholstered in gift-wrap fabric,
chromed
in places, design possibility
for the future canned ham.
It's genius
wonderful, circa 1993.
I've assumed a great many
things:
the perversity of choices,
affairs
I did or did not have.
But let the record show
that I was happy.
O let the hideous chair
stand! For the Chinese
apothecary
with his roots and fluids;
for Paoul at the bank;
for the young woman in
Bailey 's Drug,
expert on henna; and Warren
Beatty,
tough, sleek stray. For Fluff and
Flo,
drunk at noon, and the Am
Vets lady
reading her Vogue, the cholos
on the corner where the 57 bus
comes by,
for their gratifying, cool
appraisal
and courtly manner when I
pass.
Let the seat be comfortable
but let the chair be hideous
and stand against the correct,
hygienic, completely proper
subdued in taxidermied
elegance.
Let me have in any future
some hideous thing yo love.
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