LordPeter List Literary Contest

When Harriet walked in the room she decided
                    to order some coffee,
Which, given the style of the hotel, was probably
                    better than chewing plum toffee.
There were lots of people in the room, and most
                    of them were shes,
Like that one with the feathered dress that went
                    way down past her knees.
She looked oddly strange, even though she was
                    in the very latest style,
Since the very latest style had been way out of date
                    for the longest while.
Harriet looked at the two who were dancing, and
                    decided they'd been paid,
But then who was she to decide how money ought
                    to be made?
She didn't know whether to laugh at the obviously
                    fake femme fatal menace,
Who'd be out tomorrow morning running around
                    in entirely different clothes playing tennis,
Or cry for the woman who tried to look kittenish and
                    cute and naughty
And was really way past forty.
Well, everyone probably knows what they're doing
                    and that's their look-out.
Now, who was that man with the car who was having
                    a cookout?

-- Rachel Levy

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