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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Forked Tongue

[image from google]

Dinner conversation
went from
people comparing tattoos
to the
covering
of one's entire body
in tattoos,
to the embedding of
studs
right into the skin.

Wild Woman's
eyebrows
rose
higher
and higher.

She now understood
her grandmother's
incredulous
expression
at such
revelations,
as she
can feel
that exact
same
expression
on her face.

Then one guest
said
some people
get
forked tongues:
the tongue is split,
(ouch!)
and you can
learn to
wiggle
each side
separately.

(But why?)

"Isn't it
painful?"

"Well, yeth,
I eck-thpect
it ith
thumwhat
painful."

Cackles.

Now
Wild Woman
has heard
Everything!


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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 2, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    I too had to come to terms with all the piercing, tattoos, pink or green hair with my son. It seemed to come in phases, each time my eye brow raised, sometimes both! Love the writing! Loved the slurred speach.

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  2. Erika RTJuly 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    Awesome! Such a great image of the dinner conversation.

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  3. LauraJuly 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM

    :-) Kind of how I sound when I'm fatigued and dysarthria kicks in!

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  4. flaubertJuly 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM

    This had me cracking up, Sherry. Thanks!

    Pamela

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  5. MaryJuly 2, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    I agree. But why???

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  6. FireblossomJuly 3, 2011 at 4:44 AM

    That idea, and that picture, make my skin crawl. Eww!

    Um...Fireblossom wonders why you have taken to blogging about yourself in the third person. What was wrong with just being Sherry? I like her. She's nice.

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  7. Sherry Blue SkyJuly 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM

    Hee hee, I so love poaching peoples' conversations for blogging purposes:) Fireblossom, I onlky write about myself in third person when I write Wild Woman poems.......my alternate entity:)

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  8. Sherri B.July 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM

    I loved your lighthearted take...this was a pleasure to read and left me smiling! Thank you for your kind comment on my poem last week - it is greatly appreciated. :~)

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  9. MarianJuly 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    yeah, that photo is just plain gross. thanth a lot, thewwy.

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  10. Jo BryantJuly 3, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    i think splitting your tongue is creepy - but loved this

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  11. Rinkly RimesJuly 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM

    What a lovely social exchange. And the lisping is very funny.

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  12. Gemma WisemanJuly 4, 2011 at 5:54 AM

    Great sense of a persona sharing some thoughts and events that became critical in life! Good one!

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  13. UnknownJuly 4, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    what these young people do to their bodies these days is off the chain and they thought young people were strange 50 years ago. You have penned this well.

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  14. Eileen T O'Neill .....July 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM

    Hello Sherry,

    'Wild Woman' has written very well about this strange experience.
    Life and people will always provide interest, from the strangest places!
    Hope all is good with you my friend.
    Best wishes, Eileen :)

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  15. Liz Rice-SosneJuly 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    Too much! :)))

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  16. Salem LorotJuly 6, 2011 at 5:52 AM

    I almost spilt my glass of milk because of that picture. Your poem got me thinking.

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