Happy Halloween everyone! The poem below carries a huge health warning…once read, it cannot be unread. The images it will leave you with cannot be wiped (a score of witnesses will testify to this)… If you are easily offended, or have any ounce of self-respect, taste or decency, DO NOT READ ON! You have been warned!
It started as a joke
Then grew into a dare
It *may* have been the alcohol
When I agreed to wear
… the mankini
Now, for those who do not know,
A mankini’s quite the thing
(Picture me in a posing pouch
Pulled up tight with bright green string)
My abs are long since absent
The six pack’s more a barrel
And without getting into fat shaming
There’s too much padding in this saddle
… the mankini
…It barely hides my wedding tackle
But bares the rest for all
All this hairy flesh, all this…
And an unmanly spread of balls
You see, I’ll never be a swordsman
No Don Juan legendary lover.
If your body’s a lethal weapon,
I’m more like Danny Glover.
But a dare’s a dare and that’s that
You’ve got to live by a code.
Well, you’ve got to tell yourself something
When your ass cheeks are on show…
So, a distinctive Halloween outfit…
But it’s not easy trick or treating
On a cold, dark night in autumn
With cock and balls retreating!
la-la-la-la… I can’t NOT see this my mind’s eye…. you rascal, you! So, if you have had the “snip” would that mean I could wish you a Happy Hollow- Weenie?
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Haha! I warned ye! Just fear for those poor folk who will hear this in person on Saturday, as I dangle the mankini before them to fully complete the vision!
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I am going to scouring your FB page for the photos… yeah, or else I’ll be the one in the audience with the sketch pad… now what did I do with that passport…
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Haha! There’s nothing online. And never will be!!
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Kill joy
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That’s me, always killing the fun 😜
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Hahaha, no taste or decency here, thank goodness! You are the best, Al!
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Or the worst, depending on point of view! 😀
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Hugs!
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I guess I will recognize you if you come to my door. Lol!
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I’ll be the one wearing the look of stoic indifference… And little else! Trick or treat!
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I’ll be the one with the camera. Hello, youtube.
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(Thank you, YouTube restrictions on indecent content!) 😀
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lol! I’ll risk it. no litigation though, right?
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Sure… Remind me what your front door looks like again?…
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there’s a peep hole…
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One of those that distorts everything, and makes it look hideous… Dear God, I pity you!
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Now you’re scaring me.
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Only now?… 😁
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I’m tough.
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Ha ha ha – I was waiting for a more personal photograph to illustrate… 🙂 x
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There is a photograph… It will be kept in a locked box in a vault in Switzerland until thirty years after my death!
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I must admit the mankini has to be one of the most unflattering garments ever invented! 🙂
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Unless you’re sculpted out of marble – which I’m not – I quite agree!
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Even Michaelangelo’s David would struggle to maintain his ice-cool dignity in a mankini! 🙂
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Haha! True!
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I’ve been looking out for the posters so I could come to the viewing, sorry, I mean the reading. Good luck on Saturday. I really think you should wear it!
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I genuinely might… But not on its own!
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Oh my god! You are too funny! I think you should post photographic evidence of the evening’s activities! Ahem…. the reading I mean! Is Peter really near enough to come see you? That’s so cool!
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Yeah, Peter’s local.. Babbitman too – he has actually been with me to a couple of open mics!
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Awesome! I wish I had some of you all near me!
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It would certainly have been a talking point if you’d worn the mankini at your barbecue. A bit too much exposed flesh for spitting burgers & bangers though… 😉
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Next year!
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There may be a clever comment about your sausage but I can’t quite summon the mental strength to push through with it.
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Haha! It’s for the best!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Very funny though. Should bring the house down (you reading the poem, not dressed up in your mankini, which may just cause a stampede – some may even run towards you!)
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I may wear it yet (over clothes, I hasten to add)… It’s certainly going to be a hard one for the next poet to follow!
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Steady. You really don’t want to be giving the next poet a hard one. Best leave it at home… 😉
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😂
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Aargh?
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Like Aargh, but more of a scream.
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Of the type that curdles blood, I presume… 😀
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disgusting; appalling; gratuitous; egregious; bloody hilarious.
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There’s the cover quote I’ve been after!
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Hahaha! I’ve missed you Al!
I guess it means I’ve got no ounce of self-respect, taste or decency (well, we were aware of at least the last one, weren’t we? 😉)
What I would give to be able to hear you perform this!! 😊
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🤐😁
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Ha ha ha ha. So funny. I love the image you picked to go with it. I’m glad you didn’t post the real image – the poem is quite enough. 😀 😀
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Exactly… I have to retain the last modicum of my dignity! 😁
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😀
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Ha, Ha! Well done. I am now blind! 😀
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A support group is being set up… 😀
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LOL! Seriously, this was fabulous! 😀
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👌😀
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Fantastic, Al. You are a star when it comes to creating images with your poetry. I’m curious at how the crowds will react this weekend. Keep us posted, and keep the poems coming.
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Will do, Liesbet. Thank you! ♥
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I think I’ve just lost my appetite, Al. And was going to have sausages and meatballs for my dinner. 😳
Nice one. Let’s hope no mankini ever finds its way into my Christmas stocking.
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I made the mistake of telling a colleague at work I’d written a poem about a mankini on the day before my birthday… She duly bought one for me!
(Relieved you were having sausages and meatballs, rather than chipolatas and peas!) 😀
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I was tempted Al, very tempted, but I couldn’t lie about what I was actually going to have for my dinner. 😀
I’ve gone off chipolatas for some reason. 😀
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It’s a mystery… 😀
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Ah, ha, ha! The intro is great! You know, it would have been kinder had you posted the actual picture instead of the statue, because I’m sure it’s not as bad as the image your poem has embedded in my brain! 😮 This is hilarious! I sure missed your poems and sense of humor, my friend!
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Haha! Yeah this one probably went too far for the audience on Saturday too!
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