New verse by Australian writer Eloise Grills.
Independent woman
I am an independent woman
I pay for all my groceries
Even for the nuts which I could
Theoretically put through as
Less expensive nuts
At the self-checkout
I pay the prescribed price
I do not
Need a man
It’s easy like when my friend
Cut off all of her barbie’s hair
To make her into a ken
All you need to be a good man:
- Short hair
- A smooth crotch
It is a virtue to have a job
And not need one
It is decent to have a job
As an entrepreneur
Or an investment banker
Before becoming a minister
Of government
It is good to be born rich
And then die
Even richer than when you came in
Everyone should do it
At least once in their lifetime
We are all heiresses
In an extended outtake
Of the Simple Life
Perpetually working
As check-out chicks in
Rural Cootamundra
We are very very Hot
Play the entire
Charlie’s Angels (2000) soundtrack
At my funeral
I am an angel of destiny
I am also
Logically
The angel of death
Whichever girl you thought
Was hottest in the movie
I am her now – watch me
I am positively boiling
Eloise Grills, 2018
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