# Style

By [sml113](https://paragraph.com/@nofocus) · 2022-05-21

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Style is the answer to everything,

A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing,

To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it,

To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Bullfighting can be an art,

Boxing can be an art,

Loving can be an art,

Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style.

Not many can keep style.

I have seen dogs with more style than men,

although not many dogs have style.

Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,

that was style.

Or sometimes people give you style

Joan of Arc had style,

John the Baptist,

Christ,

Socrates,

Caesar,

García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.

I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,

or you walking out of the bathroom, naked, without seeing me.

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