Sunday, May 18, 2014

Drabble #11: Steel-toed


we don't talk about fashion because we're victims of it, we talk about fashion because it gives us power. we wear steel cages around our hearts to protect us against love we cannot control.  we wear steel-toed shoes every day.  we wear stripes to distract them and polka-dots to attract them.  we wear spats and straps and roses behind our ears as lures for the weaker ones, then we tear them away. the ones we can only wash with like colors and cool water.  we don't talk about it because we have to, we talk about it because we can.

2 comments:

Nicole said...

"we wear steel cages around our hearts to protect us against love we cannot control."

Genius.

Kurt said...

That's the best line. The whole thing is great, from start to finish!