All enter your solitude
need for need
four walls
small room
most- painted, dingy white
occasional company, second beauty
two by two mirror
You in the corner
mine
a new face
turning your light on
stage set, waiting star
Back straight
long thin legs
slight curves-
all in the right places
Down to the floor
elegant
details, dressed in velvet
Your vanity
porcelain, bling of choice
voyeur confidence
The silence of your space; you
one of two
ones purpose clear, always used
You are easy,
and a place for watching eyes...
© E Stelling, 1992- Revision
I wrote this in a dingy club bathroom in the early 80's, this beautiful raw wood chair with a red velvet seat all alone in the ugliness of a toilet-
Of course this bathroom is a newer one- but when I was there, and had my camera it reminded me of this piece I had written, and the angle of the photo worked-
How fun it was to read it, and have the audience feel it was so seductive...oh, if they only knew...
4 comments:
Ha! That's fun :)
i really like this Chef E! I love how the bling comment is made to cause the voice is so different from some of your other work (not in a bad way!) but then you throw in bling. ha!
I love that you wrote that in a club bathroom in the early 80's. Did you have early 80's hair? Were you wearing your Flashdance attire? Was Boy George there?
A bathroom can be (and often is) a place of therapy, colonic or otherwise.
I enjoyed the form of the poem. Snaking, you might say, like one's intestine.
Curves in all the right places, Baby!
Also - my word verification to comment I have to enter is Tinkle. I think that's appropriate.
What an interesting idea for a poem! Inspiration comes from everywhere!
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