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

 

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