By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 3 September 1998

My Good Fortune

if i was a deb
  a sorority sweetheart
 a Miss whatever
   with salon hair
   and fake bake
     tennis legs
 with Mommy & Daddy
   in the Hamptons
   and big brother at Yale
i wouldn't give a shit
   about the
     likes of you
 I'd have Brad
   on line one
Jeff on line two
   and a couple grand
  to get me
  through

as it is
  I am none of the above
it's my good fortune to be
  a poor plain girl 
       in love