Touch Of Trash

Patricia Barber · Premonition Years: 1994-2002 [2007]

The perfect shade of lipstick

Of red pepper lies

Assertions carefully weaved into her style

Eyeliner drawn with another sinner's hand

Replication makes perfection;



She's just a button short of trash.



Matching toes and fingers

The peek-a-boo shoe

Manipulation

As subtle as the perfume



A South Beach tan

With sun-streaked dew

Orchestration and precision;



The girl works harder than you.



Primitive inspiration

Packaged in modern disguise

Disposition

Permitting a glimpse of the thigh;



Masculine resolve

With a feminine plan:



Domination and submission.



She smells the gas - then lights the match.



Stylish deliberation

The chattel of Calvin Klein

Obsession,

Calculation of color and design.



Glamour defined by supply and demand

Education and graduation;



She's just a culture short of class.



Moment of indecision

Cool wind from the edge of the cliff

Intoxication

Feels like love when it looks like this.



If truth is the price for a superficial charm

Night is laughing

Watching us do absolutely nothing:

Image and form