aristocratic failures

everyone says
how classy
how lovely
how discreet
how well-spoken
how dignified
how elegant
how...
she did not go looking for the blue-blooded life of thin-lipped stuffy-faced amphibians
and yet,
here she is, submerged in the fish tank, thousands of leagues under the sea
and the Artemises, woman hunters,
seeking out the prize fish
the stand outside the glass fishbowl
poking their noses in
and wildly desperately looking in
through heavy-lided, dilated, mascara crowned eyes of panic.

-Pamplemousse