Corn flakes, coffee, curtains
My space, her space
Breakfast for me on a little table with fine china
Hers in the kitchen on paper towels
First class, economy class, first class, curtains
Our space, their space
Complimentary Diet Coke for me, complimentary wine for them
Tolerance for us, importance for them.
Stage, actors, audience, actors, curtains
Scripts for them, silence for us
Curtains, drapes, nettings, shades
Flung open
Maids and valets bunch the folds with tiebacks;
Outside, inside
Aristocratic heads on pillows, blinking into the light
Time to start tying the corsets, choosing the gloves
Making the distinctions
Downstairs, upstairs.
Curtains of lace, of velvet, cotton, polyester
Blinds and lattices
You, me
Them, us
Window treatments.
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