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A Slice of Bedroom Talk


A Slice of
Bedroom Talk


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[It isn't] beauty,
so to speak, nor
good talk
necessarily.
It's just It.
                      ---Kipling

If I chance to talk
a little wild,
forgive me ...

           ---Shakespeare
---

"I'm about
to shower,"

she breathed.

"Don't get wet,"
I urged.

"Don't worry,"
she mouthed,

"I won't."

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Conect11

17 years 3 months ago

a little cheeky, eh?

ah, that I could have the same sense of coy at 33 that you have now! I see you're going through the "put a relevant quote before the poem" phase. It works sometimes, sometimes no. The only thing I would say in the body of the poem, and just an opinion, is perhaps instead of "said" twice you might consider putting "replied" or something along those lines, just to break it up a bit as it is a short piece. Mark W. "Not since the Houston Asylum Fire of '54 have I seen so many flaming crazies." ~Dan Rather, SNL Fringe Candidates Debate
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barbsdad2003

17 years 3 months ago

I tuck yer ...

advice ta heart, changed last said ta mouthed. Looked for a synonym for said that's but one syllable. Found it in mouthed. Maybe I'll change the first said to breathed, see how that looks/feels. Thanx, Chuck PS: My first draft had the said in three places.
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Conect11

17 years 3 months ago

works well

said may have been said one or two too many times had you said it thrice, twice indeed, even much you have made the perfect cup of coffee. Mark W. I like Cal and his dog Napalm I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb everybody got one, I want mine you can order it up on Channel Nine. ~From "Doctor Jeep" by The Sisters of Mercy
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Vulgar Peregrine

17 years 3 months ago

liked this - began reading

liked this - began reading through your list - very much enjoyed everything as far as I got but smartened up and took a break at yackety-yack - sort of like bread and water between wines at a tasting - will proceed slower now - any comments will be placed on your most recent post ... our petting zoo includes a flock of wild turkeys under the feeder and a forlorn pheasant who lives under a snowy bush and wades over and stares in at us through our deck door - vp
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barbsdad2003

17 years 3 months ago

It's hilarious how ...

my---or anybody's---mind can work: When I read your forlorn pheasant (just above), my mind dropped the h and gave me peasant, so the change reads "and a forlorn peasant who lives under a snowy bush and ..." Sorry, can't help myself. One of the more hurtful (and it was hurtful, really---don't laugh!) things my long-gone mother said to me as I was growing up under her sometimes stewardship was, "Don't be silly." Chuck
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barbsdad2003

17 years 3 months ago

I aimed ...

for smiles on this one ... and hope I netted a few. Thanx, Chuck