Velvet Pants

I am missing a pair of pants, today.

They were velvet.

I don’t know what has happened to them.

I recall they developed some inopportune holes

In some, shall we say, modest places,

And not just the ones at the bottom,

Where the feet are supposed to dangle out.

But, I thought of them today,

And wished that the styles would cycle back through,

And once again,

Velvet pants could be purchased

At your local pants-ery.

But let this be a lesson to us,

We who are comfortable

And out of style.

Let us not wear our welcomes thin

In areas delicate.

Let us not say

We would cut one off,

When we don’t know

Where one’s getting it.

Or we might find ourselves

In a bag of rags

Headed for salvation army.

-jenn long