<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hideous Chair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This hideous,<br>upholstered in gift-wrap fabric, chromed<br>in places, design possibility</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for the future canned ham.<br>Its genius<br>wonderful, circa I993.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've assumed a great many things:<br>the perversity of choices, affairs<br>I did or did not have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let the record show<br>that I was happy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O let the hideous chair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">stand! For the Chinese apothecary<br>with his roots and fluids;<br>for Paoul at the bank;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for the young woman in Bailey's Drug,<br>expert on henna; and Warren Beatty,<br>tough, sleek stray. For Fluff and Flo,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">drunk at noon, and the Am Vets lady<br>reading her Vogue, the cholos<br>on the corner where the 57 bus comes by,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for their gratifying, cool appraisal<br>and courtly manner when I pass.<br>Let the seat be comfortable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but let the chair be hideous<br>and stand against the correct,<br>hygienic, completely proper</div><div style="margin:10px 0">subdued in taxidermied elegance.<br>Let me have in any future<br>some hideous thing to love,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erin+Belieu">Erin Belieu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390078" data-title="The Hideous Chair de Erin Belieu" data-description="This hideous, upholstered in gift-wrap fabric, chromed in places, design possibility for the future canned ham. Its genius wonderful, circa I993. I've assumed a great many things: the perversity of choices, affairs I did or did not have. But le..."></div> </div> </div>

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