by Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Linen is good but vinyl would be better, the Wordle Bot told me.
Hmm. Vinyl is almost never better.
All fabrics are not created equal, if vinyl could be called that.
I want the vinyl sheets on the bed tonight, said no one ever.
When your grandma was through with sex,
she covered her furniture with vinyl, and then herself.
Like Superman and Clark Kent, linen and vinyl are never
found together, and one isn’t even found in nature.
But Wordle Bot, please come for dinner.
We will try to listen to the linen records
Hmm. Vinyl is almost never better.
All fabrics are not created equal, if vinyl could be called that.
I want the vinyl sheets on the bed tonight, said no one ever.
When your grandma was through with sex,
she covered her furniture with vinyl, and then herself.
Like Superman and Clark Kent, linen and vinyl are never
found together, and one isn’t even found in nature.
But Wordle Bot, please come for dinner.
We will try to listen to the linen records
and wipe our hands (if you have them) on vinyl napkins.
Elizabeth Kerlikowske’s latest chapbook is Falling Women, with painter Mary Hatch.