
I wasn’t going to wear it. ‘A hoodie is not a cardigan’, I said.
‘Anything that does up at the front is a cardigan’, he insisted.
‘A flack jacket does up at the front; is that a cardigan?’ I said.
We were off and running like the cabbie who couldn’t get us
to the venue fast enough. And then he started on my silver hammer,
why I used the word ‘silver’ when the important word was ‘hammer’.
I could have hit him over the head. And then he said I was embellishing
the tale. ‘I’m a writer’ I pronounced from the saddle of my high horse.
‘It’s the writer’s prerogative to embellish,’
‘You call yourself a writer,’ he said. ‘Your poetry doesn’t even rhyme.’
Now I admit calling him a ‘Neanderthal’ didn’t help matters.
But it’s not just writers who are prickly.
You’ve reminded me, John . . .
I do my best to keep Australia 🇦🇺
beautiful by wearing a hoodie,
a cardigan, and a face mask 😷
all at the same time.
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Lol; I’m proud of you, David and I reckon Scomo would be too 🙂
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thanks David: I enjoyed this — and the photos; he was amazingly photogenic: you just knew he was going to be a star 🙂
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I saw him once in concert,
doing his Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal
thing. I’ll never forget it 💥 🎶
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OMG you did well, David: it’s like seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary or, not to carry a point too far, God himself. How could you ever settle down to ‘normality’ after seeing that ?
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I think we all have a bit of the prickles within us
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agreed; I think prod us in the wrong spot ….
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Poets are often prickly, even in a cardigan.
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that certainly seems to be the case; I wonder if all creative people, e.g painters, song writers, share the same affliction ?
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🤔 We do like our space.
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Hi John,
This is fabulous. So many great lines. I laughed aloud with “from the saddle of my high horse” and the last verse nails it. Prickly people make for good poetry. 😀
eden
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thanks Eden: I’ve been ‘itching’ to write a prickly poem for some while 🙂
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It wasn’t easy, John,
as it seems I have
a Rock ‘N’ Roll heart 🖤😎
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same here, David; as far as afflictions go, we could have done far worse 🙂
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I like this poem, John. It moves in an odd prickly way jumping from irritation to irritation. And, as Eden said, a lot of good lines. I guess prickly is one of those words that has negative connotations but is actually a perfectly natural reaction to *cough* needling. Is needling not a prickly activity in itself. An eye for an eye, a prickle for a prickle. 🙂
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🙂 thanks ‘Worms’ for your thoughtful and amusing response; as you can tell, I really got into this one 🙂
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I hope that high horse you were on did not succumb to being prickled!(or indeed needled!)
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Lol 🙂 yes, I tend to get on my high horse with my mate after a few drinks: we needle each other; we’ve only had one real ‘blue’ and that was over ten years back 🙂 maybe a bit of needling keeps relationships intact 🙂
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I know you’ll show him who’s boss, John, and I’m totally on your side about the hoodie, for sure not a cardigan. Nice flash.
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thanks Karen; I had fun writing it 🙂
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