Back in style for the man
who chases youth and beauty
and the shapes and colors
of one decade to the next,
these tartan hose of highlanders
will go with anything:
Designers call them timeless,
then out of fashion to suit
financial hemlines,
and cycles of wide ties, bow ties,
suspenders, pleated pants,
tasseled loafers, athletic sandals,
Bermuda shorts, bell bottoms
fedoras and berets,
long hair, no hair, teased hair,
high class, no class,
worship of the naked form,
the patchwork of thoughts
that come back around
to warm the feet
of every graduation class that
ever threw their caps in the air,
money spent and hours wasted
to make up for the lack
of natural cool and haute couture
in the hum of the looms
of the people of rags