Pat Raia is a veteran journalist who covered crime and politics for the Chicago Sun-Times, Leader and the Chicago Tribune newspapers. She holds a bachelors degree in Press Law and Ethics from Rivier College, and she taught young journalists at that school. She is the author of the Barraia Greeting Arts line. Pat Raia has been writing poetry since childhood.)
Heart's Desire
I
always wanted
to live
like that:
jetting off
to Gstaad
or to
some
Venetian ball
I'd wear
beautiful
clothes
have
beautiful
dogs
and wear
eyeshadow
picked
for me
by some
Paris designer
I'd
go away
to
luxury hotels
with men
who wore
turtle necks
and
tweed
and
we'd
make love
and have
breakfast
in bed
just like
lovers
in some
1963 movie