For Her, Who Has Nothing To Fall Back On by Jina Bae

for Seungoen

Betsey Johnson,

she said,

my beloved friend gave me this bag

made by who called

Betsey Johnson

one in the soho

in a low rise dutch style brownstone

made up with black scaffolding awning

stuffed with fishnets, laces, leathers, rainbows and jewels

watched and tended carefully by kind and rigid workers

whose boss

whom i saw on the television up on the wall of the store

in her pink wig, horsing around

on a runway show

in her body suit that revealed the wrinkles and sags

after all the models catwalked by

Synchronicity,

i said,

between you and her.