Poetry Friday -- Respectability

RespectabilityMy hair cut short, a tie around my neck,a jacket on, I wander to and fro.All this procures a somewhat larger check,but how much farther will I choose to go?A little at a time I disappear,but whether from the edge or withinI couldn't say. Am I becoming clearor is that rather that I'm wearing thin?I may say: I am really not like this,it's just a role I play, a mask I wear.But then I