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Liz Axelrod Olsen

THE EMPEROR IS NAKED AND HIS FACE IS FALLING OFF

Posh, humid
Hamptons party
Flowers
Floating candles in the pool
Sushi bar
Ice sculpted swans
Rainbow hued martinis

The guest of honor
(not P-Diddy or Alec Baldwin)
Arrives with a posse
of well-dressed size 2 ladies.

He’s the top plastic
surgeon in NYC.
Looked like Jack Nicholson as
Batman’s Joker to me.
Not quite Heath Ledger –
At least he retained
some of his beauty.

So many stretched
And pouting forties faces
With lips large
Enough to pull
Over their small
Bleach-blondeheads.

And all I heard
When I neared
A mannequin
Gone wrong was

You look fabulous!

Ellsworth Toohey
Is running the republic.
I don’t understand any of it.


 

 


 

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