The Doubt's Benefit

"It looks like a spacesuit from space!"
may seem a vapid comment
from one of the models of Project Runway,

but maybe she meant the aliens' suits,
which would nullify her redundancy.

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
She must have meant those suits
that create vacuums in the triple-bubble helmets.
The ones with exo-skeletal legs
to prevent the crush of gravity.

The earth-suit, if you will.
They may be all around us;
the lamp posts lining the street
or the cell-phone towers,
or maybe that new sculpture outside the library.

They can stand still for years
studying our faces,
watching little boys play baseball,
cringing as the fly balls
threaten their vacuum seals.