Playing Dress Up

Pink lacy parasols

Ruby red slippers that don't fit

A hat from the thrift store.

It's a bit crunched.

Strings of fake pearls,

Clip on diamond earrings

Laughing loudly,

Smiling cheaply,

Making conversation out of

Gossip and hearsay.

Here I am again,

Playing dress up.

You ask me why I

Don't wear the real diamonds

You bought me,

Or the pin

With the sapphire.

Suddenly my pearls look dull

The shoes, ill fitting,

And I see what you see.

A princess playing dress up

In the closet of a whore.