The rowdy lad pulls her pigtails
madam creaks “pass the tea”
She has not seen its soggy entrails
seeping in embroidered seams
It’s not ‘til young miss starts to wail
and monsieur starts to shout
That other patrons turn to stare
and my boss goes to kick them out
Dear auntie stands abruptly
to protest, “oh, oppression, woe!”
But does not see she punctuates her exit
with a show
This weary missus used the loo before we brought the scones,
Yet forgot to pull her zipper up above her bottom’s close!
Sophia is a Biology and English major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill