Bespoke
It’s all bespoke now — everything’s that way —
your own imperial finery, your own
adoring followers flocking to pay
your own monthly subscription fee, your own
all-but-unbreakable code, your own PIN,
your own gods on your own altar, you own
custom carriage, your own forgiven sins
of the flesh and of omission, your own
key to locked doors and your own right to rage
at the doors that don’t swing open, your own
secret sauce, your own play on your own stage
and starring your own sweet self and your own
reflection reciting from your own script,
your own facts, your own destiny, your own
arrangements, your own one-of-a-kind crypt.
© Michael Fleming
Brattleboro, Vermont
October 2024
|