Fashion/Confidence


from the ABC set

Pastel yellow,
wide - very wide - up top:
pegged narrow down below:
like sails scissoring,
those trousers!
I know the boat
was upside down.
The owlish glasses
on the figurehead
decorating the keel.
Yet he carried them off,
those sorbet colours.
Portly panache
personified.

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