In October 2016
The costume I’ve too long worn: compliance.
Once on an Indian train, in the creak
of mustard-dust plain, a student trying to find
some laudable use
for the 18 hours, I asked the man across
the best quality in a woman.
He replied without beat/blink: “submission.”
I’ve worn mine Western style, pulling
at the belt loops, bra droops, specializing
in bowed uplift.
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Poem of sorts for Mama Zen’s prompt on Real Toads to write about the Halloween costume we may wear this year in 65 words or less. Perhaps with more words I would have written of non-compliance! The pic is mine from the Pergamon exhibit that was at the Metropolitan Museum in New York earlier this year.
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