Family Time

Dinner on the table
family time
is it
really?

Time to let
my hair down
put
my leg up
(if I want to)
laugh out loud.

Can I really?

Or would you perhaps
want
a starched dress,
pearls,
white
satin
gloves
with stiletto heels--
the
whole
shebang?

Please
(oh please Daddy please)
tell me
tell me.

I would so like to know.