A PAPER POETRY PEARL

A Madame’s Jewelry

lavish and oblivious

By Print made by: Antoine Maurin dit l’aîné (?)Print made by: Nicolas Eustache Maurin (?)After: Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Le BrunPrinted by: Villain — https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-1012-3993, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90252361 (author added the heading in Canva)

Why would one wear her jewelry?
Even if one wants to upscale
Why would one succumb to such tomfoolery?
Nothing could save
A head coifed in a 4-feet-high
Gravity-defying hairdo
One wouldn’t adorn around the neck
Especially those string of pearls
Even if they can write blank cheques
Perhaps a reason to lose one’s head
For those lavish and oblivious
None could save that head
Of Madame Deficit
For they chanted, “Her head! Her head!”
Even if she wasn’t the one who said
“Let them eat cake!”

Thank you so much, Carolyn Hastings, for the June prompt at Paper Poetry. The link is below if anyone wants to submit it.