This Poem was Submitted By: Thomas Edward Wright On Date: 2002-04-27 17:08:20 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Prom Queen's Soliloquy

Here I lie, waiting so patiently, in this satin-lined coach headed for prom in evening gown of silk - a prurient purple hue so regal,  yet pregnant with the life  I planned to lead - and led  with such abandon and intensity,  never once stopping to think plans would,  or could change on the night before  the long romantic dinner, the clean car ride,  the boutonnieres, the band and the dancing,  close, the vacant vowing to proper deportment  and demeanor, impelling us into the evening, into adulthood, smoking those infernal things, the wine you love to tease me with,  pretending, always, to be so genteel,  so sophisticated, but here I am in all this finery- my blood a ruddy resin, make-up annoyingly what I’d never wear, the hose too tight, and bunched, the shoes pinching across the top where the strap rubs against that soccer injury, and the lipstick- a rude scarlet, (I always wore dark) the zipper’s sticking in my spine, and who did my hair, my god! it’s frizzy!  Mother?! How could you? - waiting for someone to ask me to dance,  wondering if a Prom Queen  can ever really be that without the requisite tour through Princess-hood, her virginity like  her future and her possibilities,  now so secured, so etched  - waiting and wondering but it seems no one’s listening…   (Are they chastising the drunk who arranged this little gathering?) Daddy,  don’t wait up, I’ll be late, very late.

Copyright © April 2002 Thomas Edward Wright


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