Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

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Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by warooa » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:18 am

Just after reading about the use of the comma, then reading the prompts, I saw an extra challenge.

Sorry for everything else that is wrong with this - sometimes inappropriateness is a default setting I can't turn off :roll:



His eyes felt parched and old, dreams long replaced by his regrets,
when she made him forget about his twitches and Tourettes.
The hottest bird he’d seen since Jinny copped one in the head;
that cricket match at Christmas when she fell down, bronzed and dead.

Now here she stood, so priceless, Masters aisle number eleven,
just browsing all the goof plugs and the stop-cocks, like in heaven.
Her hair was mouldy ginger; crust had formed around her lips
where pooled saliva dribbled onto pairs of multi-grips.

He twitched and said some words inconsequential as he neared her,
then getting her attention, with his walking stick he speared her.
His heart though thudded strongly as their fingers intermingled,
pathos far far away as his old tea bag stirred and tingled.

She wore a yellow skivvy, like that bloke out of the Wiggles,
and pee’d her pants (just slightly) when she suffered from the giggles.
He bought her flowers, rare ones from the heart of Venezuela,
then took her on a cruise ship to the north west of Australia.

They shared the wharf at Derby and the gulf behind King Sound,
and shared each other’s fluids where the Boab trees abound.
Their time was gay, abandoned, wild and music filled the air,
but soon he grew to dislike all her skanky ginger hair.

Dementia and tourettes came back to save him from this dread,
he yelled out “BISCUIT!” wearing just his undies on his head.
Now keeps his options open, spaces don’t fill up so fast,
but he’ll enjoy his next one, for it just might be his last.

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Bob Pacey » Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:14 am

I was looking for a much better ending Marty.
The purpose in life is to have fun.
After you grasp that everything else seems insignificant !!!

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:57 am

Wow! Not sure what to make of this - it's a great use of the prompts that's for sure and certainly thinking outside the square - full of the Aussie humour that has us poking fun at ourselves and the things that ail us.
and pee’d her pants (just slightly) when she suffered from the giggles
. :lol: Had to laugh at this - great way to get the scourge of aged incontinence into a poem. Well done.

Sadly :( I think I recognize this pair from trips to my local shopping centre - the skanky red hair was a dead giveaway :roll:

I think you did good Marty.
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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by warooa » Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:32 pm

Bob Pacey wrote:I was looking for a much better ending Marty.
Yeah to be honest it disappointed me too . . . also could've done more with 'bronzed and dead'

Something to work on.

ps. are you sure they were your prompts Bobbity? I would've thought (with all due respect) that "intermingled pathos" wasn't in amongst the Pacey vocab? (Even I had to look it up!)

pps thanks Maureen "Wow . . . not sure what to make of this" says to me 'mission accomplished' :D

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Catherine Lee » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:36 pm

Well this is definitely unique Marty :lol: It certainly had me giggling, especially the third and fourth stanzas!

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Shelley Hansen » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:59 pm

Well, there you have it - can't get two more different treatments of the prompts than yours and David's, Marty!!

Apart from the obvious "attractions", I really liked the way you applied all that "comma advice". How does a split prompt compare with a split infinitive, I wonder??? :lol: :lol:

Never a dull moment around here. How do we mere mortals follow acts like this??

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Bob Pacey » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:09 pm

Ya just never know what I might have in my kick Marty.


Plus I have a lot of old readers digest,

Still gotta come up with something myself though bit busy performing and now that the footy is on Thursday nights as well time is short.


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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by warooa » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:15 pm

Thursday nights; reader's digest; performing . . . . gay excuses Bob :lol:

Thanks for the feedback Shelley, something is split somewhere . . . probably my personality :P

Glad you got a giggle, Catherine . . . I'm awaiting yours (and Shelleys) homework (oh, and yours of course Bob ;) )

Marty

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Re: Homework 7 Sept. Genes in the Drool Pool

Post by Heather » Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:25 pm

Bob just throws a dart at the Readers Digest.

Funny Marty. Love your warpedness.

Heather :)

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