Set from Starbucks

Dress/Girl

I’ve seen that dress before.
I just saw it last night
crammed on the metro
thanks to the workers’ strike
General Strike in Madrid - March 29, 2012!
smashed up against hot breath and breasts,
mostly focused on the breasts...
I’m getting away from myself here.

The dress.

It’s a spring dress
just above the knee
in style
“de moda” they’d say here
lacy
swirly
designs in white
vintage in every sense of the word
20’s vintage, well done
topped off with a thin brown belt
wrapped around fun looking hips
the dress has never looked nicer
than it looks on you.


Starbucks

I’m a strange looking man.
I’m a blue looking man.
Head to toe in it
swimming in denim and stripes
sitting in Starbucks on Paseo del Prado,
the first one ever in the city,
the flagship
the Mothership
writing poems furiously in the corner
about a girl in a dress
I’ve seen before - the dress -
then Memory and Michigan
then the dress
then the girl
my pencil not even moving for a sec
why do they come to me all in one day?
the girls and the dresses and poems
I cannot choose these times
but I can choose what I wear
and today I decided to be all blue.