Historically, women weren't the only ones to wear a blouse -- children, workman, peasants, and artist. A blouse -- the outer garment gathered at the waist (so there is not waste), calling for us to pay attention to the inner. A poem is like this -- outer/inner, cinched in some way to the page or the listener's ear. Necessary, practical, perhaps beautiful. Mysterious.
Of all the food, I think the tomato (in all its heirloom varieties) is most blouse-like. Your thoughts?
should not
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to do much harm
and yet, and yet
history's in the mainsail
cotton one way
or another