<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The importance of Pomposity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Perfect life, a wife half his age<br>Their house grand, with a zip code to match<br>All bought and paid for.<br>No hawkers, appointments only<br>But look closer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Wife bides her time, waiting for his demise, <br>A heart attack would be nice<br>For she has her own dreams<br>No love baked bread here<br>No roses from seed.<br>A plastic hug, on a plastic lawn his reward</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The library full of Shakespeare and Keats<br>Never opened, for it’s the show that counts<br>Dinner Parties, A new painting<br>Purchased, because we can, <br>A favorite phrase for American wealth, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pompous talk of Wine and Poetry<br>Vinegar, and Plagiarism their only worth, <br>Still the new boob job to admire<br>Perhaps a recipe, her mother’s creation<br>Michel Roux the real star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The children born out of lust not love<br>Sent away to England, Trophy kids, <br>Breast fed by American Express.<br>The Debutants Ball awaits them<br>And a hoorah Henry wedding their destiny</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Church on Sunday<br>New money at the front<br>The old money sitting in the private pew<br>God for sale, <br>And the greenback will mop the saint’s brow<br>A church of Pomposity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even in death a grand memorial<br>But decay gives no privilege<br>Let’s hope the pearly gates are the right colour<br>And god has the right zip code<br>For pomposity, might just send them to the wrong house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Cooke">Steven Cooke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521272" data-title="The importance of Pomposity de Steven Cooke" data-description="The Perfect life, a wife half his age Their house grand, with a zip code to match All bought and paid for. No hawkers, appointments only But look closer The Wife bides her time, waiting for his demise, A heart attack would be nice For she has he..."></div> </div> </div>

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