a dream in one act

poems

 

Now You're Cool

 

slip into your beige

cargo pants the baggy ones

the ones that cost well over

fifty dollars

put on the dark grey

long sleeve t shirt with

the zipperpocket on the

right arm that isnt

big enough to hold

anything

over that slide into the

normal white t shirt that

costs forty because of the

logo that is only on the tag

and over this flashy getup

resides the down vest with

a zipper that you never use and

the logo on the left breast that

you paid all the money for

spend twenty minutes gelling

brushing combing you hair

then over your spiked dyed

hair place the ballcap that cost

you an entire paycheck

the cap with the pretorn brim

slide your socked feet into

the new shoes that cost

two hundred a piece

the leather ones that you

saw a guy on the street wearing

lick your lips

which rest below the colorless

prepubescent fuzzstache

smile at yourself in the mirror

but dont focus on your

rampant acne because

now youre cool

 

Dec 7, 2000

 

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