Best Mind Your Manners Poems

My long-sufferin' Mother tried to teach me the rudiments of social graces,
So as not to make a fool of myself at fancy affairs and such other places.
But even so, at the school prom I splattered sauce on the tux I had rented!
So much fer impressing...

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Remember when our mothers said,
“Be careful to mind your manners
When waving ego-fed banners;
Remembering where you were bred,
And, don’t let it go to your head!"


Written August 14, 2021
entered "Bite Size No. 18" poetry contest
sponsored by Line Gauthier

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