The original broadway cast album

Of Your Own Thing

Shakespeare’s Twelve Night musicalized

Scratches and pops

Crackling with vivid brass.

My Felice Picano book collection

Discovered his novel The Mesmerist

At the West Hollywood Library

Latched his face on the book cover.

My thirty-year-old 401 levi jeans

That can no longer be buttoned up

Because the button holes

Have become shredded.

The tuxedo that’s never been cleaned

 I wore to my wedding in 2008,

 With the shirt that has brown stains

 On the collar from sweating.