Mikaela Castledine #142 Please Don't Sit

Please don't sit

upon the one arm of my chair

and leave it to hold itself

upright against the fulcrum

to oppose your weight

it is not made so strongly as all that

and the high costs associated

paid out on looks

of skin deep rosy linen

dimpling buttons

and a wide and easy invitation seat

were not spent more wisely

on the reinforcement of the arms

the strengthening underpin of webbing

or the procurement of a superior carcass

and the castored legs

which having early come undone

losing already under the carpenter’s knife

something of their original strength

may not stand up to this

unorthodox approach to sitting

Please don't sit upon

the one arm of my chair

I will be more than sad to have it damaged

I shall be cross