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A puff for the bagpipe

By patterjack

18 June 2007

Since 1959, when an extremely stuffy College Principal thrust a copy of Louis MacNeice's Bagpipe Music under my nose and sneered , Do you call this poetry ? I have had a perverse fondness for the work ,with its simple conversational style, its wit,and its underlying erudition . Hence often, while simply doodling at the keyboard , I may lay out a line of verse ,which demands that I expand it in a copy of the form. Most are binned, but I post the following ,more for fun and to keep my hand in than anything else .

Fashion Statement

Anorexic models cross thighs in line as they walk the catwalk walk

and their buttocks twitch as if holding therein a firmly implanted cork

And they prink and prance in a kind of dance as they practise the glance imperial

while partially covered (but mostly bared) in the strangest of strange material .

Matrons and dowagers carefully check to pinpoint the new season's line,

and style spies covertly sketch the clothes that they will later refine

for superstore markets too far beneath the ken of the glossy elite

who stare through designer spectacles ,at gear not made for the street.

So it's no go the female form once rounded and full, front and back,

now suffering from haute couture's devilish plan, to make it a mere clothes rack.

It's no go for the garments that give a look that's allied to comfort.

Just wear what lets your boobs swing free, but be sure that you have the bum for it.

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Written by Phil (6393 comments posted) 18th June 2007

'More for fun..' and it was Brian. Speaking as one who has ever only been fashionable by accident (rather than a fashion accident) I appreciate and enjoyed this.

They are too thin, appear too vacant, and the idea of them clenching a cork between their emaciated arse cheeks does explain that odd walk they do.

Phil.

You got me
Written by fellpony (1507 comments posted) 18th June 2007

... with the cork image and completed the catch with the "glance imperial". Great fun.

Speaking as a fashion accident who was shocked rigid when I moved north from Cheshire into Cumbria to find myself two years in front of the "mode": bravo for stating something so fundamental, which if said by a woman tends to be dismissed as jealousy: skinny women aren't sexy. As a (thin, male) friend once put it - "women should be cuddly." Thanks for saying so in a witty, er, fashion.

*giggle*
Written by no1butClo (337 comments posted) 19th June 2007

loved it

if being sexy is, in essence, about looking in the right state to have children, being a stick-thin waif with little-or-no body fat canNOT be the way to go. At least not if you do it on purpose...

let's be sensible girls, we love our wobbly bits

clo

Wobbly bits!
Written by Talisker (1300 comments posted) 19th June 2007

Is that to be taken at face value, Chloe, or as Cockney rhyming slang - works either way.

Here's to women built for comfort rather than speed, Brian. Big boobies, love handles and a soft landing!

Oli

P.S. Bet you can hear the corks squeak if you get close enough, or would it be drowned out by the bone rattle?

Written by Fledermaus (3159 comments posted) 26th October 2007

Good one. Seems some people don't get it that not all clothes look good on anyone or that models aren't pretty because of what they wear. On the other hand... I myself don't give a thing for fashion, so perhaps I look like a complete idiot as wel (although jeans and t-shirts can hardly go wrong, can they?)

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