Leo Being Leo

Takes cheek to think

you’re chic.

It isn’t for the meek.

Shelf-life of the chic is bleak.

It’s likely what is chic

this week won’t be next week.

Particularly if too soon of it you speak.

That would be an undesirable leak:

deem it too passé for a critique.

It may extend beyond a week

if press about it is sufficiently oblique

to lend a savory mystique –

based perhaps on an arcane technique

of dying it unique to Mozambique.

Doublespeak may make a new boutique

display it through the next midweek.

Though sales will typically

be weak.

Leo though insists that his physique

is shown to best advantage in what he

calls his “bezique” take on the chic.

Bezique’s a French trick card game

which pits ploys of sneak and peek

against its players: puts them in a pique.

When fashionistas see him

they not-terribly-politely cough.

But Leo being Leo brings it off.

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