Macho Man

[Neville Briggs]

Manfred gets nauseated by buddies and Ross quails at the sight of a man-bag, well this is a true story, happened yesterday



MACHO MAN

As I stood in the Post Office queue,
I noticed a singular man.
When I tell you the things that I saw,
just visualise him, if you can.
He was built pretty solid and tanned,
some tattoos displayed here and there,
with a riotous mullet and beard
all formed from thick, black, curly hair.
All in all, I suppose you could say,
his dress was quite clean and quite neat,
even though he had chosen as apt;
some thongs to reveal his big feet.
On his t-shirt was printed the words
" V8 Supercars " — that's not a clue
to the thing that seemed strangely inapt;
his toe nails were lacquered bright blue.



Neville Briggs
Singleton Bush Poets.

[Maureen K Clifford]

Aaah Neville don't be so suspicious - maybe his little girl or his granddaughter got some Blue Nail Polish for Christmas and when he was having an afternoon siesta .....................................I'm sure he just hadn't noticed.

Cheers

Maureen

[Leonie]

Aahh, but did his fingernails match his toes?

[Heather]

Great poem Neville.

Just goes to show you can't judge a man by his tatts!

Seems to be something about post offices - I recall that is where Ross spotted the man bag with the CAT on it from memory.

Heather

[Neville Briggs]

Thanks for the reply Heather. The Post Office seems to be the place where all sorts of people turn up . You're right, no matter what we look like on the outside the real " us " always remains mostly invisible and only revealed by as much as we are able or willing to reveal.

Didn't see his fingernails Leonie, but he didn't have matching eye shadow .

What do you think I was suspicious of Maureen ?
Yes there are numerous possibilities, Ockham's Razor requires that we assume that he did it himself for a display. Why ? Who knows.



Neville

[r.magnay]

....did the blue match his dress?....

Actually Heather, the bloke with the CAT bag was in a chemist shop.

[Heather]

Sorry Ross, it was the chemist. Nigel wasn't it?

[Dave Smith]

Hey Nev my daughter had a shop that sold costume jewellery and the girls got at my big son and made him go to lunch like this. I went down the pub by me self.

[warooa]

AAAhh! Attack of the beard detritus feeding rainbow butterflies!
Good one Dave.

[manfredvijars]

Now that takes a REAL Bloke to let little girls put butterfly thingies in your beard ...