Lips Of Greed Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

I had no idea how thick their lips of greed were!
I just 'assumed' everyone was making a fashion statement.

'Where have you been?
Greed has been all over the news for years.'

So has botox and lip injections.

'Wait a minute!
I thought you said you had been bitten by a 'wasp'! '

I was!
It was the same one who did the injections and the botox.
For thousands.
And I mean THOUSANDS.

'Is that how you managed to lose so much weight?
Because your lips had become so huge?
I didn't want to say anything before.
But your lips are noticeably gigantic.'

Yeah,
But I wanted them to appear natural.
Like the others who you said,
Believed they could attract success.
Because they had 'lips of greed'.

'WHAT?
I was using that as a metaphor.'

A meta-4?
What's a meta for?

'People like you would kill themselves for a dollar.'

I wish you had said something,
Before my lips became big as pillows.

'Don't worry about it!
I am surprised you haven't smothered yourself,
Already.'

Are you suggesting something?