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And Words Are All I Have
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It was lilac and it seemed to me then
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The color was paler than lavender. A first cousin.
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Two pieces, a matching dress and belted coat.
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Swiss dot it was called then.
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Gossamer. Lighter even than air.
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I would run my hand over its pebbled surfaces,
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so it wouldn't float up and away.
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from the bottom of the 25-cent bin in Jackson’s Department Store,
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crumpled there into a nondescript bundle
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held together untidily by elastics.
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When I loosened the ties,
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the ensemble sprang abundantly to life:
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As if I'd added water to a dormant elixir.
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I was hesitant to wear it at first,
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for fear I would sully it.
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But when I could wait no longer
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I gathered up its gauzy folds one piece at a time
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and let them float down over my head,
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securing the belt around my waist.
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Its weightlessness felt like armor,
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this sheath of seeming nothingness,
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now a force field against anything bad.
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News at 11 Warren Beatty will now be remembered as the old guy who screwed up at the Oscars. Forget his landmark films, his dangerous Clyde Barrow looks. That scene in Reds where he and Keaton reunite at the train station, The one that left you breathless: I saw it in a commercial the other day for Citibank. All of …
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No More Rust Now that scientists in Beijing have discovered how to slow down aging in monkeys, will we learn how to stop all of nature next? Think. No more showers of autumn leaves. Gone, the soulful, wrinkled hands, Happy Retirement cards. Bid goodbye to old faithful dogs, plastic surgeons, Lens Crafter stores, Gone, too, those gloriously aged porpoises, wizened …
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