Just Me--Adventures in Poetry

 

“Upon a time,” the story goes,

“There was a girl in too-tight hose,

Who wiggled, squirmed, and itched a bit

In Sunday dress with too-tight fit.”

And even as she grew much older

She dressed just as the culture told her.

She crammed her feet into high heels

And wore the clothes with latest frills

But deep inside she longed to wander

Through meadows vast with no shoes on her

And so, one day she just said, “No!”

The heels and frills just had to go

“Those things are fine for some,” said she.

“But pantyhose just don’t suit me.

I’d rather wear a big straw hat,

Blue overalls and shoes plain flat.”

From that day on she smiled more

Comfy in the clothes she wore.