classy

it's a small powder room.
hardly large enough
to turn around and sit,
or really powder your nose,
if anyone really did
such a thing,
but the customer insists
on wallpaper. paper left
over from a hotel job
a dozen years ago.
a throw away bolt of thirty six
inch wide, hard as nails
vinyl paper, paper
you can't bend with a
pair of vise grips.
paper that will need
extra heavy clay based paste
to get it to adhere
and stay put, never to be
stripped down,
but she wants it on her
walls. it will look classy
she says. classy.
I have an oil painting
that will go perfect
in here.