cheers Bill you are right of course
On 27/05/2020 09:51, Bill Wootton wrote:
> I’m still a teenager in my head in some ways, Patrick. The stanza about
> current times was inserted after I had finished the first draft.
>
> As for panties your head may have been still running with the material in
> your own snap.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 5:19 pm, Patrick McManus <
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>
>> Bill thanks although I misread the title as panties!
>>
>> enjoyed but maybe for me I thought first of your teenage parties of long
>> ago then suddenly it's today -maybe I misread cheers P
>>
>> never heard of a turn an Oz thing?
>>
>> On 26/05/2020 22:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> A party used to be called a do.
>>>
>>> What do you do at a party? Chat,
>>>
>>> drink, flirt, dance... Da do doo ron?
>>>
>>>
>>> A party used also to be called a turn.
>>>
>>> What turns? You, maybe, as you swirl?
>>>
>>> Or your behaviour, not at work or home.
>>>
>>>
>>> A party sets you a-part,
>>>
>>> adrift from customary habits.
>>>
>>> Your job now is to socialise.
>>>
>>>
>>> Parties were the best fun
>>>
>>> before food got involved.
>>>
>>> Eating was cheating back in the day.
>>>
>>>
>>> Food should be incidental at a party
>>>
>>> or spontaneously called for, late,
>>>
>>> music and laughter the cravings to satisfy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Parties these days are verboten.
>>>
>>> The very idea of clamour is fading.
>>>
>>> Music has lost a dimension.
>>>
>>>
>>> Good parties gathered their own
>>>
>>> momentum, created circumstances
>>>
>>> for doing and turning.
>>>
>>>
>>> May they yet re-turn.
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
>>>
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