MAGPIE TALES
supplied this curious illustration!
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER!
Curiouser and curiouser! A fantasy indeed.
A fate that may befall us all if we do not take heed!
If I see a group of dark-skinned men when I am out today
I'll take a different route to town and get out of their way!
A little admiration wouldn't go amiss
But, at eighty-one, this experience is one I think I'll miss!
'Moderation in everything' is something I was taught.
I'd call this 'overdoing it' or something of the sort.
She must be a very selfish girl who hasn't learned to share!
And how did her hairdresser reach her to arrange that tumbling hair?
He must have trodden on several men, all naked and adoring!
Oh well, at least he cannot say that his profession's boring!
But what intrigues me most about this rather erotic scene
Is the modesty! Yes modesty! I'll tell you what I mean......
In days gone by the artists always covered 'the fiddly bits',
For nudity, in those days, caused people to have fits.
See below, a typical scene where the drapings fall just so,
And Cupid's quite frustrated because nothing is on show!
Yet here's a twenty-first century girl organising her body
So that there's nothing prurient, for that would be too shoddy.
Those dark-skinned arms are carefully placed so she is looking modest.
Of all odd pictures in the world surely this one is the oddest!
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NEWS FLASH
R.I.P. WHITNEY HOUSTON
'The Greatest Love of All'
Was the song I loved the most.
But even that love doesn't quite suffice.
Beauty, talent, money, fame can't save us from ourselves.
And Whitney Houston now has paid the price.
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