Dubai thoughts

Spoons and forks and wine glasses
and funky-smelling clothes
Cheap, fragrant fabric softener
Expired cheese and mottabal
DVD player playing with us
Decides to swallow The 40-year-old Virgin
and leaking toilet pipes
Loose wire in the main switch
That caused the A/C to stop
supplying us with oxygen
Negotiating with car lifts
And budgeting food
And budgeting my life
And making sure that next year
financial strife doesn't strike
And making sure that family knows I'm safe
That my friends still remember me
That I guard my heart from men
Who guard themselves from me!
And making sure that I go home
Not only disillusioned
But stronger
and better
and wiser
and thinner!