model

i see the model
strike a pose
for the class
and they, enmasse,
agree
they are not worthy of
magnificence
they are young
and have fucked
on skateboards. so what.
they know nothing of decorum
or keeping appearances
or holding things together
like reins in the teeth of
the cowboy hero who knows
there's only thirty minutes or 
so of the matinee left to tell
the story ...
and how the man gets the woman
and, even though flawed,
sees himself as god's messenger
to deliver good news and an ethic
inhabited by workaholics and slaves to an ideal.

©jim hill 06-27-2013