Footnote: On Her Stockings' Back-Seam

Rise triumphantly
from just beneath her unshod
heels where the ruins
of haute couture's vanaties
lie in shards.  Rise up; rejoice.

Kyakuchuu

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

I woke from a dream with these lines intact not more than fifteen minutes ago.  The damage done to the beauty of stockings and nylons by so-called "high fashion" is too terrible to measure; witness, for example, the condemnation of reinforced toes and/or heels.

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