POEM

Things

My Mother Never Taught Me

by Sheila (30-B-2) FPE

All the other girls I study

seem to know just what to do

All their lives they've been absorbing everything their Mothers knew

So I'll study to be like them,

though it's quite an uphill fight

I'm a self-appointed daughter,

and I've got to do this right"

The high heels feel quite natural,

And I'm right at home in furs But why do my sheer stockings look

like I've been picking burrs ? Although I sit quite lady-like,

or so it seems to me

The pictures always look as if I lived up in a tree!

Why can't I wear red shoes with green? It looks all right to me

But then my room-mate up and says

"Well, dig that Christmas Tree".

A floor-length dress for morning

didn't seem to make a hit

She said "Not in this neighborhood; the cops will have a fit".

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