The Money Girls
Beauty is marketing to the
Money girls and they spend
With lavish precision because
Big dreams need big budgets.Seal-sleek hair, shinning pumps,
Pearl earrings, suit and skirt,
All elegance and no sex they
Interrogate their prey with
Smooth questions; and whenYour answers satisfy they slide
Their treasured secrets from
Leather cases softer and more
Durable than flesh, click-clasp,
Showing what you long to see:
MBAs and GPAs, KPIs and ROIs.Will they be content after they
Eat the world and don’t grow fat?
Will work and reward fill the void
Or just gild it over? I can’t say, butThe money girls will spend their youth
In acquisitive pursuit, and if those years
Go to hard waste, they can’t buy them back.
Published in the Fall 2014 edition of Apeiron Review.
Peter Galen Massey 
Very insightful poem. I will return to read more. Best of luck in writing and everything else.
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-G.D.
I like the beginning, Pete, but the last lines feel like you pulled them out of Ye Olde Bag of Poem endings.
Oh dear, I was on my self-imposed deadline, and rushing a bit. I was hoping it hadn’t shown.
I’m a late comer to this blog and this particular posting…. after I’d heard it had been accepted for publication [?]
I don’t see any disparity with the ending… are you revising it or letting it stand within the moment it was created?
Yes a journal in Pennsylvania took it. Very pleased. I’m letting it stand as is.