For What?
For money:
for champagne diamonds
and pink&white acrylics.
For stilettos and suede
and hair sprayed updos.
For confidence in new-found beauty.
For the perseverance to plan
and never cancel.
For transformation:
for a chance to taste the bizarre
and savor the uncanny.
For disgust of a lemming life
and envy of Self.
For all worker-bees of this world
and the select few who strike against the Queen–
For my right to royalty.
For frugality:
for dollar menus
and seeking out every cut-able corner.
For the right to encourage wishful thinking
and a pinky-promise at eleven:eleven.
For saving up myself and spending it on others
in unwanted conversation.
For the privilege to set standards
and the gall to stand by them:
For saving face.
