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My Bourgeois
Leanings
One
day, at a meeting of the Komsomol…he was accused of bourgeois leanings just
because he happened to wear a tie.
-Yevtushenko, A Precocious
Autobiography, recounting an anecdote by his father
I am the only man who wears a tie
With proper coat and trousers (inspection pass)
Properly kitted like a proper guy
To weddings, funerals, dinners, and Sunday Mass
I am the only man who does not wear
Sneakers or baseball caps, gas-station shades
Knee pants, tee shirts, jeans with a built-in tear
Or plastic jackets shaped like hand grenades
If we are facing civilization’s end -
One’s trousers touch one’s oxfords with a quarter-inch
bend
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