Still Waters
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A lady, most outwardly demure,
Had a red dragon, from a tattooer.
It wasn't Chinese,
It was Welsh, if you please,
And well away from the casual viewer.
Had a red dragon, from a tattooer.
It wasn't Chinese,
It was Welsh, if you please,
And well away from the casual viewer.
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© 2012 J Cosmo Newbery
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Is this meaning that the Tallulah Bankhead travelled to a place that is being hidden from the public to be having her tattoo?
ReplyDeleteYou could interpret it that way. You would be wrong but you could do it.
ReplyDeleteWho would have thunk? Tallulah? I am shocked! (Smiles)
ReplyDeleteInwardly not so demure, I would think..
ReplyDeleteIntriguing dear J Cosmo, one would have never thought it possible. :)
ReplyDeletexoxoxo ♡
Very witty! But ouch. (Not a big fan of tattoos.)
ReplyDeleteTallulah and dragon tattoos ... can't get much better than that, I'm a-thinking.
ReplyDeletexxx
Note that Tallulah was the illustration not the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteA man most outwardly demure
ReplyDeleteHad a ring in the hue of silver
Not on his finger
Nor in his ear did it linger
But in a place more distinctly impure
But soft! Is this a shot across the bows? We can't have that!
ReplyDeleteSaid the man with the stainless steel ring:
I’m at a loss how you could think such a thing.
I am not only demure
I am exceptionally pure
And larks think of me when they sing.
While the impurity needed rebuking,
ReplyDeleteI don't buy the story you're spruking.
The picture that you paint
Of you - well, it ain't,
And the larks of the world are all puking.
A man more wordy than terse
ReplyDeleteResponded in a limercky verse:
Who'd have thought that my nipple
Would create such a ripple;
It could have been so much worse!