Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The Question of the Royal Purple Shorts


It wasn’t out of pretense that one thought to put them on –
one had no showy wish to claim one had been born
to wear that hue. Could anyone with any moral self-
regard imagine sneaking in to seek the secret shelf

that some outré aristocrat kept guiltily for his silk underwear –
and steal it? Ah, but there was something more alive and rare –
how one could feel it! – bared as one prepared for the decision
to engender this display. One made it with precision.














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