Suits

“Didn't you like the look / In your suit and tie”

The suit and tie is explicitly discussed by Uncle Jerry as a carrier of the poem's central ambiguity: where would you wear a suit and tie? To a wedding or a funeral. The image refuses to resolve — is he dressed to marry her or to bury the relationship? It joins legendary, low-down/stand-up, and the LOML title itself as one of the poem's key double-meaning images.