Friday, March 18, 2011

Blue and pink and brown and green and kind of orange polka-dots

I always liked those "Miss Mary Mack" songs that go on forever and have sort of a repetitive tune. So because I'm not quite ready to go to bed yet, I wrote one.

It was a
Lovely pretty sultry sunny salty peachy day
When right before my eyes I saw a store along my way
The doors were made of windows and the windows were all bare
And right in the display case I saw something lovely there
It was covered in
Blue and pink and brown and green and kind of orange polka-dots
Though it was in a fabric store it didn't really have a lot
My eyes filled up with dollar signs, I knew I had to buy it- but when I
Went to the counter, they said "Maybe you should try it."
But I just
Laughed at him and bought the thing and went straight to the dock
My friends were out there swimming and I knew that this would rock
They all would be happy for me, and envious to boot
Because of my new (kind of orange) polka-dotted suit!
And so I
Took it to the changing room and took off all my clothes
My shoes from off my feet and then my glasses from my nose
I struggled with the polka-dots and found to my dismay
That this would never fit on me, no chance, no how, no way!
And then I
Cried my eyes a river, and I cried my eyes a sea
Because I had just managed to make a big fool of me
I had no other swimsuit and there was no other way
I guess there was no swimming on the beach for me today.
And so the
Moral of the story is to look before you leap
And also 'fore you purchase 'cause mistakes do not come cheap
The suit was triple digits and the cost hit me real hard
Because I'd used my parents shiny green new credit card!

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3 Comments:

At March 19, 2011 at 9:41 PM , Blogger Diolinda Monteiro said...

You used my AMEX?!!! That's OK. It'll probably fit Indy. ;)

 
At March 20, 2011 at 10:20 AM , Blogger Ryan said...

Ha! I thought the same thing. Swimsuit shopping is such a pain!

 
At October 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM , Blogger Watercold23 said...

I don't know anything about swimsuit shopping, but I really enjoyed this poem :)

 

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