The Party Prank

There isn’t a sign, there isn’t a trace

Of Isabel Groom on the planet’s face,

She stalked from the room in a great distress

With a foot long tear in her party dress.

 

‘I shouldn’t have come, I shouldn’t have stayed,’

She said to the Under Parlourmaid,

‘I should have remembered, Elizabeth Krank

Is fond, too fond of the Party Prank.’

 

‘She came in a dress, with tassels in blue,

The same as the ones I was wearing, too,

I saw the glare that she gave me there

With the self-same comb in her party hair.’

 

Elizabeth went to the party cake

Staring, like someone barely awake,

She seized the knife from the cutting board,

Turned to Isabel Groom, and roared:

 

‘How dare you wear that comb in your hair,

And a dress that no-one was meant to share!’

She flared, and slashed in that candle-lit room,

And tore the dress of Isabel Groom.

 

While Isabel spun, and grabbed at her wrist,

And bent it back in a sudden twist,

They say that she bent it more than she should,

And Elizabeth Krank was sputtering blood.

 

The knife was embedded, deep in her throat

And Elizabeth screamed, a long high note,

‘I knew your party would be a mistake,

And now you’ve bled on the party cake!’

 

There isn’t a sign, there isn’t a trace

Of Isabel Groom on the planet’s face,

She stalked from the room in a great distress

With a foot long tear in her party dress.

 

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[MomzillaNC]

Party Prank? Quite a dark and rather visceral castigation of fashion obsessions. There's not a woman on the planet who hasn't been "cut" by the words and manipulations of other women over fashion choices. You put it in pointed and gory terms! Well done!

[A Soap Mess Stories]

that was some prank. . .another wonderful tale. . .

[Valentine]

Isn't that just like some women! Another treat from you with a sad ending. Wonder where she is. [ha-ha] lol Kathie

[Marie]

I reviewed this before, but for some reason it didn't go through.

You know, when two women wear the same dress to a party, disaster is certain to follow.

[Avinash]

Just discovered Tea and your poem make a nice combination. Couldn't help but smile while reading a great battle which I am afraid everyone has witnessed sometime or another. So it all sounded so familiar.

[TL Boehm]

The Cafe is misbehaving today. Trying this review again. This would have brought an abrupt end to the festivities. And so much more than a fashion faux pas for Isabel.

[R Smith]

more of your hilarious wit David, its a treat to enter your world of characters and the adventures they undertake, thank you.