The Possible Dream (Buying Jeans Online)

By | 1 February 2017

I don’t know. Does Eileen Myles think this much
about her jeans?
Probably not.
Creating the perfect poetry jeans is not as hard
as you think.
It requires patience, skill,
habitat and armoury.
How to be Parisian seems to be really
How to be Patti Smith, with hair serum.
Step 1: have small breasts.
But collarbones
Step 2 take a tonic out of your bar fridge
and replace all the Evian with spite. It’s chilled, therefore.
Not bitter.
‘She buys very expensive shoes but never polishes them.’
Cool. I’m in.

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