old coat

[Delta40]

in a cheap rummage bin
I find
odious shades of lipstick
two dollars each
so dry
they can't glide
across my cracked lips
or glisten
in the evening light
no moisture
to lure an interlude
of the heady kind
no stick
just lip
bits

[Jerrybaldy]

How on earth ( albeit the underside) do you do it ?

[Delta40]

My mother used to look at me and say 'pick your bride in the morning'

[Jerrybaldy]

Did your mother ever say anything comprehensible ? ;)

[Delta40]

its hard to say her being scottish!

[Jerrybaldy]

and to lure an interlude of the heady kind.. you are deltaesque at your subliminal best
love your choices

[Delta40]

deltaesque - a shape somewhere between statuesque and rubenesque!

[Jerrybaldy]

A deviant shape that passes indeciphered except by fellow deviants :D

[Delta40]

...all covered in vegemite

[Jerrybaldy]

dripping in it :D

[dafydd manton]

What a lovely image....!! Remember, Delta, there's many a great tune played on an old fiddle!

[Delta40]

What a lovely image....!! Remember, Delta, there's many a great tune played on an old fiddle!

I keep forgetting the notes each time I fiddle (lol)

[dafydd manton]

There's a line in there about going flat, but I won't!!!!!!!!

[Delta40]

don't - its enough that while fiddling, my g-string snaps!!!!

[dafydd manton]

Look, it's the middle of the night, I'm supposed to be going back to bed......what are you trying to do to me....and at my age (apparently!)

[Delta40]

there, there. Mary and I will tuck you back in and check under your bed for monsters

[dafydd manton]

OK OK you win....I'm going. Where did I put that Teddy Bear?

[Delta40]

his bear arms have armed him with the right to bare arms

[dafydd manton]

Night, all. *Climbs ancient, creaking wormy stairs to attic. Passes wind, falls asleep, smiling like a Cheshire cat!.*