Preparing for the Red Hat Luncheon

“Preparing for the Red Hat Luncheon”

 

Sister insisted:

Tease your hair up

and by all means wear purple

 

I kept my hair down

and wore red

 

Only my panties were purple

(pronounced pay’-yen-tees):

I live a ‘felt’ life, as Henry James so eloquently

puts it

 

If I said, “James, choose:

Sister or me,”

James would say “Me,”

because he has wit

 

And if following up Sister said:

“James, choose: my sister or me,”

James would say “The one

with the purple panties.

I like that one,”

because he has truth

 

And if at the Red Hat Luncheon

James reached his arm out

I would say, “Here!

Here is the gravy boat!”

And he would say,

(and I know this may be silly)

“We shall sail to sea in a sieve,”

Sister would cry and piss herself

 

And not for the first time