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Dinnertime

DINNERTIME

David asks for his dessert

Peggy wants to press her skirt

She has a dance class and she’s late

David says he cannot wait

Mike is giving him a ride

He’ll just go and wait outside

Father tells him he will not

David mutters thanks a lot

Ann says she expects a call

Benjamin won’t eat at all

Mother starts to serve the pie

Benjamin begins to cry

Mother asks him what is wrong

Father says the tea’s too strong

Ann gets up to get the phone

Benjamin begins to moan

Peggy says her tights are torn

David says he hears a horn

Father says to finish first

David says that he will burst

Peggy says it isn’t fair

Ann has on her other pair

Now she will be late for class

Benjamin upsets his glass

David’s taking tiny bites

Ann is taking off the tights

David says the crust is tough

Mother says she’s had enough

Father says it’s not too bad

Mother says she’s going mad

David wiggles like a mouse

That is dinner at our house.

~Mary Ann Hoberman

Thank you Mary Ann Hoberman for penning the poem Dinnertime in The Family Dinner.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Love,

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Comments

  1. Brooke McGlothlin says

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    Wow…She must be spying on the McGlothlin Home for Boys 😉

  2. Eryn {mamahall} says

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    sounds strangely familiar. but it’s comforting 🙂

  3. mia says

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    Do you suppose this very same conversation is spoken in various languages around the world? Wow, have we all been there!

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