POETRY / FOUND POEM

Lady Gaga Transforms

From the pages of Elle

Elle Magazine Clipping. Photo by the author.

“Hard to be the yellow in a purple sky”
— Lady Gaga from Shadow of a Man

A marriage of mayhem,
Lady Gaga of broken hearts,
ragtag memes,
a mysterious woman
wearing a London Fog,
crossing the street
in the rain.

Like a moon that rises
and a sun that sets,
she changes her pose
with her hair color,
a genie in a L’Oréal bottle
reborn this way,
gentle to the touch,
a voice of a goddess.

Lady Gaga often
lives in 1858, Paris,
with the Aristocrats,
leading a life far removed
from her current persona,
before a star was born.

I see her in a Louis Vuitton dress,
wearing sequins and pearls,
pouring a glass of champagne
with the wealthy bourgeoisie,
and sniffing the golden cork
of nobility and refinement.