Thursday, 20 November 2025

20th November 2025

 


vitamins and coffee

evacuating bowels

morning ritual


© Rachel Green November 2025



Our dearest friend, Nadia, from Dudley.

where the men wear coats and the women are studly

share a joke that goes back twenty year

when she was the lady in M&S gear.

Where the phrase came from I do not recall

and Google has been of some help not at all

for what is aloud is betrayed by the movement

of hands where the humour obtains the improvement

"My friend has curly hair" illustrated by finger

moving in circles, at temple will linger

"and brushes her teeth" with an index one pointed

at whoever sits in the direction anointed.

  "Mad as a Hatter," my friend seems to mean

  and has me in giggles whenever she's seen.


© Rachel Green November 2025


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