Amazing Grace

ONE SINGLE IMPRESSION
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AMAZING GRACE

The lissom, young and elegant,

Who move with easy grace;

Whose bodies follow music

To a light, unwordly place,

Fill us with joy and tenderness;

They flutter and they rise,

But there's another sort of grace

That fills us with surprise.

It's the grace of the stout lady

When she decides to sway,

With her roly-poly rippling

And her personal ballet!

She looks 'stately a galleon'*

As she moves around the floor,

With an amazing amplitude

And affinity with the score.

African ladies have it,

That billowing-bosomed pleasure

In unselfconscious glory,

Treating plumpness as a treasure. 

Their gracefulness does not depend

On dieting and rigour

Much of it wells up from within;

An almost holy vigour.

I love to see fat ladies dance;

They put a smile upon my face!

May they forever move and sway

With their own delicious grace!

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* A phrase from Joyce Grenfell, one of my favourite poets and entertainers.

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Before

TRANSFORMATION!
Today, a visiting beautician
Came to our club on a mighty mission;
To improve the looks of the elderly!
And the make-over model they chose was me!
Now I feel slightly over-done
But the whole experience was fun,
And you must agree the result was magic!
My everyday face looks rather tragic!

After 

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