Rondeau for Emporio Armani

What is Armani? What if not money
Made visible? So too, Dior, Gianni
   Versace -- even, in a sense,
   Reeboks and Nikes. The pretense
That these scruffy slacks or a gunny-

Sack from Sak's or Playboy-Bunny
Lingerie are sartorially stunning
   Is bunk. They're nothing but Expense.
      What is Armani

Doing, though, that everyone in Cunning
101 doesn't do as well? Money
    Smells so good. We've no defense
Against our appetites. It isn't funny.
    What is? Armani.

	-- Tom Disch