I Eat My Pants For Dinner (a villanelle)
The fashionable gleaming green is gone How do we explain to the salesman Fast fashion fibers quickly swim into dawn Run out of nylon? Don't fret upon Washing plastic clothes is where it began The fashionable gleaming green is gone Is this the price one pays to strut rayon? Debris slithers and shocks the crustacean Fast fashion fibers quickly swim into dawn A strand of blankie, the guppy slips on turns noose-like, choking her inner organ The fashionable gleaming green is gone