Quintessential fame, money and diamonds
In carats above your Versace dress size.
Presents of ‘little villas’ on the Ivory Coast
While speaking of extravagance, are not the most.

Dresses embroidered with gems and gold thread
Costing more than a respectable country’s GNP
You’ve never heard anything but the Accent of wealth
Toasting to your prosperity and plastic-surgeried health.

Custom-made Prada’s have never given you shoe-bite
Your Armani’s and Chanel’s have always been haute couture
Your body is your own public relations entourage
Your soul becomes immune to feelings’ barrage.

Impossibility shrouds how people can live this way
Having to make all the right social statements.
You’ve always been seen at the most happening places.
Talking politely to those powerful, rich basket cases.

But really, there’s nothing wrong with Jaguars…
Or Givenchy or Yves Saint Laurent and fast cars
Perhaps my hatred of these mortal things stem
From my desperate desire- to have them.