Dress

Angelo Nikolopoulos

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            down
            a wound
            a shop window
            a vessel from bow to stern 
            in mourning    
            comfortably
            in your finest silk 
            to kill
            to pay respects
            in salvaged clothes
            in uniform
            as Executive Realness
            as Banjee Boy
            according to code
            to work the room
            to bring troops into line
            as Butch Queen First Time in Drag at a Ball
            for temple
            for no reason at all
            as my icon       
            you up in my love
            in Poison by Dior
            in black pearls
            glamorously
            in something borrowed
            resembling a girl

 after Solmaz Sharif