Purple Knickers vs. White Hanes

I come from tea-times and trifles

beans on toast and fried egg sandwiches

suet and yorkshire pudds,

lemon curds and toad-in-the-holes

battling with conkers on the playground

baring purple knickers under navy tunics

too short for netball

wrong gender for cricket

I'm from war stories and ragtime

parachutes and grand pianos

too young to comprehend death

hands drowning in those of Fats Waller

My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins

more my interest than a Bridge Too Far

Accents and idioms

Potatoes, Tomahtoes

and Bob's your flippin' uncle

once just confusion

brings intrigue to my present

Where I'm from molded me

filled me

once just a part

now is me