John Mark doodle down

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Fabric

You take me apart

like some hand-me-down dress

or Goodwill garment.

You rip seam by seam

until there's nothing left

but fabric and thread.

Then your Vogue vision

supplies a new pattern

for remaking me.

The ultimate gall

is your hate when I bind

your sewing machine.

Your shears are useless

on this material me--

sew some other fool.

I only wanted

my lost buttons replaced

and my tears mended.