I am the hostess with most. <br />I even boast a family ghost. <br />Who haunts the family estate. <br />Of course you must appreciate <br /> <br /> she is quite free to come and go. <br />You never know if she’ll appear. <br />She’s been around for centuries <br /> and she is rather hard to please. <br /> <br />She will not mix with commoners. <br /> It is the gentry she prefers. <br />Just who she was nobody knows. <br />A titled lady we suppose. <br /> <br />A snob or course she is my dear <br />Her actions make that very clear. <br />Her history a mystery. <br />You have to be well bred to see <br /> <br /> The ghost I like to brag about. <br />That she is real, please do not doubt. <br />If you should see her you can boast <br /> that you have seen the family ghost. <br /> <br />Which seems to prove you are well bred <br />although the lady’s long since dead. <br />She recognises quality <br /> the upper class like you and me <br /> <br /> If you don’t see her though you try. <br />The answer is to simply lie <br />Just like the vast majority <br />of people who have claimed to see. <br /> <br />A non existent family ghost <br /> A fable dreamt up by your host. <br />Which seems to prove as she contends <br /> that people pose to please their friends.. <br /> <br />They lie about the lie she told. <br />She lied to show that she was bold <br /> enough to make her story seem quite true. <br />And you believed the more fool you. <br /> <br />24/06/2009 <br />http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-little-extra-for-m-lady-ernestine/
