Eons ago, like in the '70s, I read a short poem by her (from a magazine article re her school years, I think). It went something like this
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Are you sure it's by her? I found this, from the introduction of 'Please Don't Eat The Daisies' by Jean Kerr:
It was seven-thirty in the morning and my sister, who was six, was pulling my feet out from under the bedclothes and crying, "Oh, get up, get up, you mean thing, Mother says I can't go downstairs until you're on the floor!" I withered her with one of my characteristically salty sayings - "Oh, you think you're so smart, Lady Jane Grey!" - but as I stumbled out of bed I realized then and there that all I wanted out of life was to be able to sleep until noon. In fact, I composed a poem right on the spot to celebrate the discovery. I remember the poem (unfortunately reprinted here in its entirety) because it is the only one I ever wrote, unless you want to include a two-line Valentine which said "Thee-whee." The poem:
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning.
By golly, that sure looks like it. Thanks so much; all that's clear now is that I did read an article about Jackie sometime. :/ But this is a fine poem by a favorite author, so the sense of 'I *meaning you* found it!* feels just right. :)
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It was seven-thirty in the morning and my sister, who was six, was pulling my feet out from under the bedclothes and crying, "Oh, get up, get up, you mean thing, Mother says I can't go downstairs until you're on the floor!" I withered her with one of my characteristically salty sayings - "Oh, you think you're so smart, Lady Jane Grey!" - but as I stumbled out of bed I realized then and there that all I wanted out of life was to be able to sleep until noon. In fact, I composed a poem right on the spot to celebrate the discovery. I remember the poem (unfortunately reprinted here in its entirety) because it is the only one I ever wrote, unless you want to include a two-line Valentine which said "Thee-whee." The poem:
Dearer to me than the evening star
A Packard car
A Hershey bar
Or a bride in her rich adorning
Dearer than any of these by far
Is to lie in bed in the morning.
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