Sense Sonnet - Acher

Kidding Around?

I got the dress from Dad and Mom.
It wasn't new, but that was fine.
I wore it to my high school prom.
And I was with some friends of mine,
When Susie Barkley and her crew
Came by. Susie was a mean one.
She had nothing better to do
Than make me the brunt of her fun.
Susie wasted no time at all,
Saying she'd seen my dress before,
And that I really had some gall
Pretending that I wasn't poor.

"That's my old dress," her laugh was shrill,
"That I gave away to Good Will."