Last Minute Shopping For A Secondhand Suit

This was fun
thirty-five Halloweens ago
when I was set on dressing as a bum
and this was the best way
to ensure the effect.

Now, I’m trying not to look like a bum
for a job interview
and this might be the only way to do that.
A little luck, a sucked-in gut,
got to find something here
that’s better than the last of my old
day to day office wear.

Right size, wrong lapel.
Right lapel, wrong size.
Wrong fabric, wrong cut,
pants too short to work with
or too worn at the heels to cuff…

Thirty-five years ago
this would have been perfect and
this would have been fun.
I would not have been perfect
and that would have been fun.
Now, I need to be perfect
and look like the one
they’re gonna want. Then,
I used to be Somebody. Now,
I don’t look like anyone.