reverse cinderella

she was always sleeping with the wrong people
her friends had warned her

she might wake up desperate or worse
discover she’d become cinderella in reverse

she fell for artists and musicians
men with failing shops

sculptors living in basements
with very big dogs

one day she met a banker
with an extremely small heart

she said to herself she’d love him
and help his heart enlarge

he showered her with vacations
she shared her passion for the arts

she made him a patron
of all her friends’ work

decades spun her head
she found herself rich and alone

up until her death she was never sure
if she took the right way to go