Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

2/7/2020 ☼ poems

a dumb blonde in Swan Lake—
a nice addition
since there are
two dozen incredible
sculpted
sweaty
beautiful
men—

and
I know the show
is making fun of me
by giving me this one dumb blonde
to be interested in at Swan Lake

but I am enchanted
by that whorish makeup,
bright red lipstick,
she makes me think
highly of the
prototypical American—
with a capital A—
woman
and as she stands next to that
royal snob
I can only hope to meet one like her
outside a shitty
dive bar one day
and watch her swan-like,
hooker-like,
dumb blonde
movements
seduce me.

it worked,
Matthew,
it worked.