The Daily Dressing

after Gertrude Stein

“Clothes make the man. Naked people
have little or no influence on society.”
—Mark Twain

Some know
themselves
in daily dressing
the cutting the
fitting. Some
invent themselves
putting an arm
in a sleeve a foot
in a pant
leg then a
shoe.

Some grieve
for the worn
out shirt the
vest no longer
one with torso.
Some believe the
daily dressing the
cutting the fitting
hides what a
mother cannot
love.