Fashion Sense
Coming to terms
with the fact that a loop
of metal will probably
never grace my ear
or nose –
Despite the way some people
absorb neon, fashion themselves
with tattoos, swim in their own
soup of counterculture,
figures out of a science fiction
self-made landscape, who
make rips and scraps converge
I am much more likely to be
found in a soft T-shirt, or couched
in corduroy, nursing a tattered
book as if it might solve my universe.
Cacti Fur 