Mr Stick Gives a Girl That Smile

Mr Stick transcends the problems of time travel
and with his straight-up shtick makes this girl's bananas curl!
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Just double click her name.

Meanwhile this'll put you in the picture ...

sixty-nine
Josephine Baker 3 June 1906 - 8 April 1975

'Hot damn' they said
'hot damn look at that old gal go'
and her knocking their socks off
like she did in the old days.

Didn't know what skirt meant
till she bared her buttocks
in that fruit loop getup.
Oh boy that banana dance!

And you remember - you must remember
that crazy guy - who was it now
shot himself right there
right there at her gold kid feet.

The punters, the nazis, the bosses, the bigots
didn't she lead them all a merry dance
right from St Louis Social Evil Hospital
- now ain't that the place to be born -

to La Salpetriere Paris, where the bad girls die
and just days before she'd had them sighing:
'that Nefertiti that clown that ebony orchid'
Man was she some 'uppity coloured girl'.

©Ynes Sanz
from 'Fanny the Flying Housewife' an unpublished collection of 40 poems
for mad and magnificent women

Eurythmics: No.3 in an occasional series entitled 'Harmless Hobbies for Mad Old Bags'

That this wondrously expressive hobby
exists at all is thanks to Monsieur Dalcroze
whose works and thoughts can be found at
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21653/21653-h/21653-h.htm

Don't Try This At Home

Yes, I too was a child in the 1950s. All my mother could afford was pointed sticks ...

Topiary: No. 2 in an occasional series entitled 'Harmless Hobbies for Mad Old Bags'

This topiary woman found at the unpredictable Nothing to do with Arbroath

On Getting Off Your Case

This cartoon by Don Addis

Herbert

This image is called 'Herbert'. It's by a German artist called Michael Sowa.

i like to think
it's true
what they say
that people grow
to look like their pets
why do you think
i own a greyhound
and besides
it's hard
to get a collar and lead
on a shrew

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