KASIA CZARSKI-JACHIMOWICZ
Put on My Business Clothes KARL CAMINSKI In the conference room we wear silk shirts and shiny pants Silver belt buckles too Slick purple vests Doughy desk chair stomachs Recycled business colloquialisms Forced laughs We wear these things I used to only wear my business clothes until 5 Then I’d change into something more casual But I don’t bother changing anymore I lie around in the clothes Like some kind of business sloth I lie around in them for so long I forget I’m wearing them The sweat and the stink stick them to my body And they become like a second skin I leave them on for months Sleeping in them Eating in them Showering in them Passersby say, “Man, that business guy was made to wear those business clothes!” And I don’t disagree And I especially don’t say that now, when I take them off, I feel like I’m still wearing them.
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