Here is why I despise you <br />Why I’ve so much disgust to express <br />It’s the silver you water your flowers with <br />It’s the profligate way that you dress <br /> <br />It’s the unfair trade that flavours your coffee <br />It’s the French cow’s milk that thickens your tea <br />It’s the car that you buy to complete a collection <br />It’s the instant demand ‘I’ll have three’ <br /> <br />It’s the snatching as if simple affluence <br />Is enough to excuse lacked politeness <br />It’s the money piled high in eight bank accounts <br />It’s the plain, snobbish, arrogant rudeness <br /> <br />It’s the vanity satisfied only by price <br />The surgery, fake-tan and lipo-suction <br />It’s the constant belief that you always know best <br />As if cash serves the best education <br /> <br />It’s your Mum for the smile that she puts on her face <br />It’s that satisfied, smug little grin <br />It’s the ‘I have a house that is home to two people <br />But could fit three small villages in’ <br /> <br />It’s your bathroom and all its extravagances <br />Like the towel rack designed by Armani <br />Like the hair spray that’s made from the finest acrylic <br />Extracted from the heart of only the deepest despair <br />In a luxuriously poverty-stricken family <br /> <br />It’s the egotist’s way, it’s the narcissistic way <br />It’s the dregs of the filthiest rich <br />It’s the thought that the world is a gold mine <br />In which everyone’s striving to dig<br /><br />Alice Gormley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-filthiest-rich/
