The P&L Dress Code According to William Cordish Williams
Yesterday, entering the Power & Light district to attend this year's Bloomsday celebration at Raglan Road, I spied with my little eye this here notice.
This controversial dress code has been in the media a lot, but I'd never actually seen it in black and white (pun) ...
And now I realize how hysterically racist it is.
No towels? I guess intergalactic hitchhikers are screwed. Seriously, I like vaguely remember black dudes on my college campus 10 years ago walking around with towels, but they were probably athletes. Clearly, whenever the Cordish people last saw a black guy carrying around a towel purely as an accessory, it left a traumatic impression. The same goes for the awesome dookie rope, which I think everyone should wear.
Most alarming is the middle-school-gym-class precision with with the dress code enforcers have pinpointed the attire of young urban males and laid it out there plain as day. As one coworker points out, a white guy with a fitted white shirt and puka shell necklace would most certainly be allowed in.
For some reason, for me, declarative signage and posted notices often brings to mind William Carlos Williams' famous poem "This Is Just to Say," which goes:
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Taking inspiration from that and using this particular printout of the dress code, on which someone has written "7 Mary 3" (who played KC Live on June 11), I have made my own dress code notice, with, of course, apologies to the non-evil WCW.
This Is Just to Say
by William Cordish Williams
I have figured out
how you dress
black man
you cannot
come see
7 Mary 3
because
of your towel
forgive me
you are scary
so baggy clothed
and so gangsta
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