Clean White Jackets

When I see women in clean white jackets

(blazer, baseball or those that look like tennis rackets),

diaphanously buoyant yellows bowls of hair

and pink scalps shining luminously through,

I know that they’re RESPECTABLE,

but kind of old and poor.

Other aging firebrands in fashionable yoga straps

(or completely braless, excepting when they’re doing laps),

and sheep-sheared blondes with style gel itch,

who covet SLATTERNY, SLUTTY looks

and thoughts they cull from trendy books-

are “youthful,” and seem rich.