Earrings

[azurelunatic]

I wanted pierced ears for a long time, and I remember that I pestered my parents about it.

Mama said No. So, after some discussion, I gave it up sadly.

Then at Christmas, I opened a little package from FatherSir, and was delighted when I saw tiny 14k gold birthdstone earrings... pierced earrings.

Thus, my father quietly overrode my mother.

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[boojum.livejournal.com]

I wanted small pierced earrings, gold.
You gave me slippers, gray.
My mother said that she would scold
Unless I wrote to say
How much I liked them:
Not much.

A poem by Judith Viorst. I love her. She writes things that are (as I'm no doubt misquoting from Elsewhere) for children and unusually perceptive adults.

[azurelunatic]

I seem to remember that one from my elementary school years.