Uniform Tattoo

go put on your uniform
and i will put on mine
black and blue soon smelted
to beat unmetered rhyme
leather silk and chocolate
espresso cream and then
roll them all into a ball
to pruriently call it sin
strip you down to dress you up
spin you round again
fill your shoes with diamonds
put a pearl strand on your neck
kiss and love my Little Cub
til he dies the Little Death

Scarlet Boxers

It never fails to astonish me where I get inspiration for a poem. In some cases, like “Cherry Ripe,” it makes perfect sense. After all, I was eating a bowl of cherries and pondering the Lily Prince. However my latest “Scarlet Boxers” (http://dragonwolf77.mindsay.com) came about while I was eating cubes of cold watermelon. I’m sensing a chilled fruit theme though. =

And, I was so inspired by TDMT’s latest blog post, that I went shopping, and will soon be in possession of a lapel pin with a http://britebluedot.com/index.a.html.

The Ties that Bind

It’s seldom required that I wear a tie to work–I usually needed a summons to the Pink Palace for that dictum to come down, but I wear one regularly nonetheless. I don’t like to wear dress shirts without a tie. It feels incomplete somehow. Over the years, I’ve put together an assortment of ties ranging from silk to leather to polyester. Cheap or expensive, garish or subtle they all have the same basic function. There are a couple of Aigner ones–holdovers from the days when Aigner as all the rage (in doing a quick search Etienne Aigner doesn’t make men’s good any longer). There’s some an Oscar de La Renta that goes well when I need to look somewhat conservative. But the tie that get the most attention and compliments is a yellow one that is fairly basic. It’s a simple, polyester tie that’s nothing to write home about (blog entries not withstanding). I got it at Walgreen’s 2 for $10. For anyone who cares the one with the peppers was the other half of the lot. I guess it just goes to show that I could have saved a lot of money over the years; however the designer stuff has held up very well. And yes, it is true that silk ties don’t leave rope burns.