An Evening

Start with your favorite black velvet hat
and your dress boots
that are as comfortable as sin.
Nothing else will matter
as long as you add some quick wit
and a few opinions on current politics.

Speak your mind fearlessly
so you can be living
your life without regrets.

Think that everyone else in the room
is just as full of self hatred and loathing
as you are and they do not have the black hat
nor the soft shoes.