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Material Girl

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Material Girl
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Material girl

So caught up in the world

Your life and outlook make me hurl

Self-indulgent

Caring for no one else

Just a little material girl

Your title belongs to no one in particular

Men and women equally can be a material girl

They’re all the same

Unfettered, unbothered by others’ woes

They just pose and post

With their new shoes and clothes

A self-righteous sense of how others should look

Yet, when’s the last time they read a book

Explored anything outside their internal, infernal universe

Oh, what a curse

To be enraptured by your own reflection

A life without direction

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    Written by Atomic Historian