Old Money in the Palms

He has a mind
of average dimensions
but a self-image afflicted
with huge pretensions,
a lack of humility
matched to low ability,
his unstable personality
can at times be a fatality,
but his inherited fortune
is of old money quantity
and known family quality,
a billionaire in the Palms,
they always cater to him
praising his affable charms
his old family gentility,
his personal quality,
outstanding generosity,
talent and ability,
using the old chap fully
for their own utility,
while hoping to inherit
when he reaches senility.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz