<p>And remember, poems should always be read aloud.</p>
<p>I have wiped away a very small tear.</p>
<p>a black girl flying
feeling her speed, glorious
running with the boys</p>
<p>2nd grade poets are my favorite, no matter their age :).</p>
<p>And remember, Alu, your development continued apace in the prose-poem category. I believe that is how you achieved Laureate status.</p>
<p>Good thing I crowned you a couple of pages ago, as SBmom might have edged you out if I’d waited until today.</p>
<p>But not in the prose poem division.</p>
<p>Beautiful, SB.</p>
<p>oooh. running with the boys. like that very much.</p>
<p>Oh this is too sad. Now I have to go find a happy thread. Perhaps one of those with w/l’ed kids who didn’t get into their top 8 institutions which are unmentionable?</p>
<p>On a lighter note, my boys decided against the homeschooler prom in favor of a huge airsoft tournament. Why dress up, comb hair, and spend a bunch of money on some stupid girls when they can wear BDUs, play with guns, and make male grunt sounds outside?</p>
<p>OK. Here is a poem about proms. Sorry again but I can’t get past 2nd grade:).</p>
<p>When I get bigger I want to be a prom girl.
My dress will be blue and silvery and shiny.
Just like my mom made me when I was Sleeping Beauty in the play.
I will have long blonde hair, and wear a headband, and have glass slippers.
There will be some boys somewhere.
But boys are very very scary even though I like their faces.
I wish Mark Calloway liked me best.
When I am a prom girl Mark Calloway will like me best and my name will be Arabella.</p>
<p>Here is a link to the dress that Aludaughter wore to House Parties, the version of prom held by her unmentionable institution.</p>
<p>[Macy*s</a> - Women’s - Nicole Miller Silk Strapless Bubble Dress](<a href=“http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=281682&CategoryID=22120&LinkType=SiteAd&LinkLoc=5449&AdID=40018]Macy*s”>http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=281682&CategoryID=22120&LinkType=SiteAd&LinkLoc=5449&AdID=40018)</p>
<p>I bought it for her. Can you tell I wasn’t allowed to have Barbies when I was little? D said to me, “Mom, I just love P********, I get to do all the things I didn’t do in high school.” :eek:</p>
<p>And then S said to me, “Mom, I am thinking of taking (course known for being very hard and requiring oodles of reading)”.</p>
<p>So I’m a little topsy turvy this morning what with driven daughter going to parties and slacker son wanting to read the great books and all.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Much cheerier, well done!</p>
<p>I could try my hand at a prom poem but it would definitely be darker. In the interests of thread resuscitation, I will desist.</p>
<p>And I think I’d have taken as my title the new Cafe thread title, “Skipping Prom.”</p>
<p>I may not be able to resist…</p>
<p>I keep noticing a trend in these girlie-dresses (and having no daughters I guess I can plead cluelessness of current fashion or something), but none of them have anything on their shoulders (it’s that strapless thing that I’ve never understood: do they at least wear necklaces with them to break up that wide expanse of blank shoulder skin?), and they’re counting on, um, endowment to keep them from falling down. I never considered wearing a dress like that, when I was prom age or ever, really. (Having no endowment to hold up such a dress is probably part of it.) I guess it’s a popular fashion?</p>
<p>No wonder I wasn’t invited to proms. :)</p>
<p>signed,
Clueless and Unendowed</p>
<p>Mootie,
Some of them have some sort of no-slip surface on the top for the lesser endowed.</p>
<p>I think the whole point of these dresses is that vast expanse of collarbone etc. What with every other part of the body having been spotlighted at one point or another recently.</p>
<p>Endowment is not part of the Alumother genetic gifts either.</p>
<p>BTW, my prom in high school was in 1974. I went to an alternative boarding school in California. Our school had its main buildng on the center lawn. 70’s California style, i.e. two stories high room, big stone fireplace up the two-storied wall, lots and lots and lots of brown wood.</p>
<p>Prom consisted of a cover band playing, drum roll, Jimi Hendrix.</p>
<p>We all hid in our rooms where we could still hear the too-loud music. Then we probably got stoned. <em>looks around to make sure no kids can hear</em> But I don’t remember:).</p>
<p>We need your skipping prom poem SBmom. We can just move the Sinner’s Alley clock forward and it will be the middle of a very dark night…</p>
<p>I’m such a klutz, I can imagine I’d be constantly tugging on the top and trying to make sure it wasn’t going to fall off. Do they do that, or am I just imagining stupid stuff?</p>
<p>Probably those who are confident enough to wear them are also smoooooth enough to not tug on the tops. :)</p>
<p>Oh, no, moot – they all tug up the dress/top. Strapless was practically required at D’s proms (Jr./Sr.). (She went to all girls HS) At the photo op pre-prom gatherings when parents were invited, they all spent lots of time pulling up dresses. I have to assume it continued when they actually got to the prom. I bought D a box of some sort of special sticky tape made just for keeping strapless tops in place.</p>
<p>Those strapless dresses have a lot of wiring that helps keep them up too. I could never have worn them as a teen when I was a 32AA at best, but since children I’m somewhat bustier. I have one dancing dress that’s topless, it’s kind of fun to wear. It stays up on it’s own with no help from me.</p>
<p>I think I “bloomed” when I was five (great Iowa farm girl genes there), but I HATE those dresses. Cynic that I am, I think manufacturers make them so they can charge the same amount for dresses with sleeves, but don’t have to go to the work of paying for sleeve sewers, or shoulder beads or full length zippers. I won’t let my D wear them. My standard line is: that needs a turtleneck.</p>
<p>Mathmom: “a dancing dress that’s topless”??? I bet it IS fun to wear!</p>
<p>Not over-endowed here, but those dresses never did stay up properly, which is why they never made it out of the dressing room at the store!</p>
<p>Skipping Prom</p>
<p>Skipping prom
would have been a better idea
had I a grain of courage.
Instead, I
sucker punched a boy
in a brown tuxedo,
a boy
I didn’t want,
though he wanted me</p>
<p>Yeah but one time in college I wore a halter dress to a formal in Texas for one of my roommate’s many debutante parties and I STILL popped out.</p>
<p>I was famous in Houston for a day and half.</p>
<p>I can’t wear strapless not because of any actual events but because I am anxious enough on a day to day level about the meaning of life and other things that worrying about my top popping might just put me, literally, over the top.</p>
<p>Oh SBmom. That will stay with me all day.</p>
<p>A teenage boy called me ma’am the other day as he stepped in front of me in line at Whole Foods. Politely. I thought at the time, “Ah, if they only knew one iota of what lurks in the hearts of middle-aged women…”</p>