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Plastic People

Upper East Side

The Hamptons

Aspen, Colorado

The plastic people

Follow each other

Moving in herds

Like cattle to the

Slaughter

 

Drifting

Floating

Shifting focus

From one charity event

To another

Whatever’s trendy

Whatever’s fashionable

Whatever’s happ’ning

Whatever’s the need

Tainted new artists

Society’s rejects

The film-maker who fits in with

The flavor of the month

The disease or the cause

That captures the moment

Stigmas overlooked

Deformities relieved

By one hyper exertion

By one pseudo good deed

 

Changing bedrooms

Changing partners

New alliances

Noblesse oblige

 

Mrs. Astor’s

Four hundred

Reinvented forever

Reinvented with fervor

On the edge

Of hypocrisy

Keeping up with the Jones’s

Maintaining the houses

Paris, Rome, Cote du Jura

Malibu, Palm Beach

Couture fashion

Madison, Rodeo

Worth avenues united

Avenues of the liege

 

Location, location, location

The right address unspoken

Dinner in the right places

Sporting events to be seen

Three martini luncheons

Halcion evenings

Business is business

Where money’s retrieved

 

Look to plastic people

For fashionable guidance

No matter the moment

No matter the need

Remember to catch them

While jetting to Santa Barbara

Saint Maarten, San Troupe

San Marco, warp speed

They live in their milieu

Can’t function outside it

Can’t follow a shadow

That others believe

 

It’s easy to find them

They leave behind footprints

But barely a mem’ry

Or singular creed

Other than finding

The latest in fashion

The latest persona

Or new plastic breed

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bruce-levine
New York
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Aug 8, 2018
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