Tanzanite, chocolate diamonds, pearls.
Stones sitting grandly inside little felt boxes.
Underneath the glass counter, dark colors contrast
with the blinding white of display shelves in showroom lights.
Metal, as fake as silver, lines the boxes.
What a Taj Mahal!
Men and women dressed in suits behind hte counter
exhibit wares on fingers, toes, neck, and hair
like a fish in rainbow scales. Price tags
are never shown, but always discussed
when it comes down to the card. Platinum, gold, obsidian, sapphire.
Gems and plastic never sound so good together
as when one can buy the other along with all of the other things in life,
useless, needed, desired or otherwise.
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