I see them in full pleated skirts
and sox lingering over their phosphates
green and ruby
like hummingbirds
and the conversation goes like this
a demure chuckle
a few murmured words
I'd like to see them as an act
on the Broadway stage
not as in movies
with the set plastered flat on film
with pastiches of product advertisements
brought into frame
after a fashion
no here's the wheeled set
carrying the girls onto the stage
with a cursory background
mirror and fountains
to music
one says to the other
I'm going to get to the bottom of this
with a slurp of straws
the other replies
I'll have another