The Hideous Chair Poem by Erin Belieu
The Hideous Chair
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 let the record show
that I was happy.
O let the hideous chair
stand! For the Chinese apothecary
with his roots and fluids;
for Paoul at the bank;
for the young woman in Bailey's Drug,
expert on henna; and Warren Beatty,
tough, sleek stray. For Fluff and Flo,
drunk at noon, and the Am Vets lady
reading her Vogue, the cholos
on the corner where the 57 bus comes by,
for their gratifying, cool appraisal
and courtly manner when I pass.
Let the seat be comfortable
but let the chair be hideous
and stand against the correct,
hygienic, completely proper
subdued in taxidermied elegance.
Let me have in any future
some hideous thing to love,
subdued in taxidermied elegance. Let me have in any future some hideous thing to love, nice
This poem highlights the proper place for a chair that is out there.
but let the chair be hideous and stand against the correct, hygienic, completely proper. A very fine poem. tony
Love makes even the most hideous of things beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful imaginary. Beautifully captured a hideous chair.
I've assumed a great many things. well communicated. Sylva-Onyema Uba.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Some hideous thing to love! Thanks for sharing.