POETRY: I Need A Dress

©I Need a Dress

Mimi Wolske

Originally Published April 2012

Mimi Wolske – Mona Arizona™

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Ohhh, such distress!

The prince is giving a ball

And I need a dress.

But, that’s not all.

I also need an invitation.

No Ella sitting in the cinders,

Nor a princess in desperation

From a deep sleep where choosers

Are beggars in this teradiddle.

I fear there is no beastly nobleman,

Nor strange men to me who sit the saddle.

I’m no mermaiden nor prisoner who can

Let down her long locks.

Oh, very well. I’m not one of the few

Of the aristocracy with many frocks.

I’m a commoner but none the less in my purview.

Earls and Counts, two Marquis, and a Duke

All desire me by night,

Yet by day, I’m an unknown, a fluke.

Oh, where is my knight?

Where is my fairy godmother

To wave her wand so magically

And make dress and slippers appear,

And transform me into a Lady, a true beauty?

I already know how to be a woman.

Did not those men teach me well?

Am I not already broken

To pleasure them as good as any belle?

I just know I’d find my true love

If I were invited to the ball.

Oh, how’d I’d treasure him above

Any and no more be a moll.