Bill Costley

Where 'stuff' comes from & goes
or, Thrift-store Kids

Carolin & I grew up in states far apart, in factory-cities,
children of industrial-union members, thrift-store kids,
she, because her mom Amah scoured them for top-brands,I
, because I wanted books I didn't have to return to the
Lynn MA public library. After we met, my wardrobe
improved substantially, thanx to her mom in Ypsilanti MI
& its Value-Village, now -World, where she still shops.
Carolin eventually became a Talbots & Kate Spade pony,
I, Mephisto shod, both dressed way above our class, &
mentally way beyond the gear we wore. All her clothes
go to Julia Ball, sister & daughter of Episcopal priests,
who's just her size. Mine'll go who knows where? Where
-ever my son Alex decides. He looks a lot like me, but is
not quite my size; all my media go to Marshall Brooks
my friend & sometime publisher, who already knows this.


(20 JAN 07, 5:28pm PDT, Santa Clara CA)