Zips.
Couldn’t help noticing
the chairs
me & Ross chat on
Sundays
have zips in ‘em.
How cool would it be, I thought,
if we came with zips —
we come with a button —
then they wouldn’t have to cut us open
during surgery:
all they’d have to do is unzip us
and go in.
Why wasn’t a zip included
in our blueprint?
John Malone 
What if it broke and you couldn’t do it up again? Have to be satisfied with the belly button John. Did Adam have one?
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good question, Brian; and good point ; just a whimsical flibbertigibbet, Brian: I chuckled when I wrote it 🙂
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I love this word flibbertigibbit John, Mum used to say it all the time and I’ve never heard anyone else use it (except me) so lovely to see it in a piece of writing.
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I love these funny old words, Kate: I get a lexicographic thrill whenever I get a chance to use them 🙂
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Googling lexicographic…
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haha; it’s the first time I’ve used lexicographic; I checked the spelling first; sometimes I create poems just to ‘showcase’ the odd word 🙂
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bad engineering by our makers. it reminds me of the roadrunner cartoons, when his nemesis Wylie coyote would get blown up or injured, he would just zip out of his fur/skin and be good to go
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what a fun comment; thanks Beth 🙂 those early cartoons were wildly inventive —
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Fun one, John. I’m not sure if those chairs are supposed to be sexy or not. Zips on lips would also be handy, though. I’m thinking maybe at some point people could graduate to buttons.
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Lol; your comment is fun too; I’m still chuckling 🙂
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There must have been a reason … oh because zips hadn’t been invented yet – humans did that!
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hahaha; good answer, Kate 🙂
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whew: I felt I was going round and round in circles with this one, Kate — but perhaps that was its intent: how circular thinking can get and it’s hard to know when — and WHERE — to stop
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Perhaps let it spin – all good rides leave us a little giddy and a poem is no different John 😊
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that’s a great way of putting it, Kate 🙂
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HI John, I did wonder about that when I delivered my children. Both were Cesear deliveries and I also thought how convenient a zip would be.
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thanks Roberta and welcome back; it was just an idle thought; like my ex said in ‘Mice in the Fridge’ about my mind: it’s a free-for-all in there 🙂
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interesting thoughts, John.
would certainly make it easier on the body 😬 lol
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thanks Destiny: the idea came to me in a rush; couldn’t wait to get it down 🙂
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my pleasure, John….got to grab them then …these ideas slip away just as fast lol
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere I go 🙂 this boy is prepared 🙂
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it’s the best way…some of us make do with these phones 🥴lol
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You never know, maybe in the future that will be an option. Seems pretty sci-fi though. Would, like you said, make surgery a lot easier.
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I think we’re stuck with he way things are, Bob —
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I think you may be right.
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What fun chairs! How easy it would be to change their colors and fabrics.
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hey! thanks for joining in the fun — and what a fabulous idea !
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Buttons over zips any day! Or maybe drawstrings or velcro. Definitely room for improvement in our design!
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yes, a little more thought could have gone into our design 🙂
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Imagine! We could trade our coverings in when they got old and shabby. 🙂 A fun poem.
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thanks; I used to be a serious guy but then I discovered my inner clown 🙂
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🙂
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This is a good question John. I could do with fewer scars if zips existed!
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I was scratching my cerebrals when I wrote that one, Eden 🙂
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This is funny. Trying to picture me with a zipper
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it’d come in handy during surgery 🙂
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Oh so handy. Wouldn’t have needed to caesarean section when I had my son 😁
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aha; yes, another blogger said the same —
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