Can’t be without it to be with it.
If you would join the factions
Within the modern age,
There are some vital actions
In which you should engage,
Do get some nasty pigments
To pin into your skin —
Imagination figments —
On torso, arm or shin.
(These used to be confined to
Bad villains from the East,
Or those who were inclined to
Go out to sea; deceased,
To recognise the latter,
When bodies wash ashore,
Is an important matter —
And that’s where tattoos score.)
Apart from such, to make you
Feel utterly unique,
Some other habits take you
To a conforming freak —
Don’t listen to good music,
A beat is all you need;
And books that you must choose? Stick
To comics — if you read
Foul up your speech to utter,
Between each group of words,
Expressions from the gutter,
Involving, often, turds;
And adjectives and adverbs
Must be replaced, to vex,
By one of truly bad verbs,
Denoting having sex.
Get lips and nostrils garnished,
And belly-buttons, too,
With rings that, when they’re tarnished,
Can cause quite a to-do,
(Especially if placing
Them quite a lot more south —
More trouble you’d be facing
Than were they on the mouth!)
From second time of meetings,
The very fondest hugs
Administer as greetings;
Experiment with drugs;
Talk sport when you’re conversing,
Cars, latest TV show,
Or scandal be rehearsing,
And you will be all go!
I thought I was alone – but you’ve said it all !!!!
So addictive reading your blog after I had lost the link …
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Not really a popular viewpoint with the majority I know, at present. Especially when I hint that it is all juvenile behaviour.
Mea culpa for obviously not having visited often enough for you to get it back!
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Colonialist – can I post this at Hello Poetry (credited to you with a link, of course) ?
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By all means! Thank you for the implied compliment.
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Love this rhythmic write and agree completely. Even our degeneracy is degenerating.
Wrote one very like it last year:
https://connecthook.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/pierced-for-your-own-transgressions/
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I enjoyed visiting that one – we are forming a duet!
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You had a lot to say about tattoos! Very creative, indeed. Would you be surprised to learn that I have a tattoo? Just got it a year ago. Never thought I would do it, but I’m so happy I did. Makes my life so much easier. I’m not kidding, either. 🙂
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I did realise that a LOT of people wouldn’t agree with this POV.
You really surprise and intrigue me with your confession. The nature and location … ? … erm, perhaps we shouldn’t go there.
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Permanent eyeliner. Not all that exciting, huh?
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Now, that is a sensible labour-saving device!
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I thought so!
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Brilliant. Leslie. Just think a few years down the line – all that sagging, technicoloured skin
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We are starting to see that already with some of the pioneers of the craze.
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Fabulous! I am a great admirer of your very creative “way with words!”
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Thank you! One simply has to be firm with them, but kind-of kind!
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Thinking words that rhyme with yuk
For patterns penned in red or blue
what will the tattooed wonders do
when they need a tummy Tuck?
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Lovely rhyme — dreadful thought!
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