From the Wall Street Journal: "The Filipino restaurant Manila Social Club, in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, just made a splash with a confectionary creation that makes people crazy: a shiny, $100 doughnut covered in 24-carat gold."
Perhaps a Roman emperor ate peacock stuffed with gems;
or a Persian satrap ordered parsley with gold stems.
A pearl dissolved in wine was Cleopatra's fav'rite tipple;
tigress milk for maharajahs was squeezed straight from the nipple.
In history such folly is a footnote, adding color --
but what are we to make of modern hundred-dollar cruller?
Of caviar piled high upon frittata, for a price
that turns the blood of millionaires into antarctic ice?
I cannot help but think about old Lazarus and Dives --
such heedless inequality today most surely thrives.
So eat your Golden Opulence, you brazen selfish rotter --
in the next life you will find there is no bottled water . . .
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