Saturday, February 9, 2019

A Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet






The handiest answer to the
diminished popularity of a
caffè con panna, is the 
tautological one, fashion.






                     Yet this escape hatch, it-
                     self fashionable, begs the
                     question, is this Prada fa-
                     shion, vegan fashion, car-
                     diac fashion, diversity fa-
                     shion..? Yet, we say, abor-
                     tion is not so much in fa-
                     shion, because we can't a-
                     gree whether it's murder, 
                     or couples clamoring for a
                     constriction of choice. Nei-
                     ther one is much in fashion. 


  Murder is down, possibly as
  a bizarre function of the
  rising trend toward suicide;
  and people who had been up
  in arms for a choice between
  Republican or well-behaved
  Congressional oversight have
  begun to constrict their
  choice to ill-behaved inter-
  rogations run by Democrats.
  But we hear this was not a
  choice, merely the nudge of
  being human. A more fright-
  eningly accurate definition
  of fashion might not exist.
  Fashion keeps chugging on:
  who's paying for it today?
  Maybe some of them, humans.


























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