Wow, you guys!
At least, like the rest of us, you have to put them on one leg at a time…
Doug
On Jun 17, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Me and my Aussie Dacks
>
> If only Dad had passed down to me
> his shapely legs, good for running
> and tennis, instead of what I got.
>
> Mum's ‘slim limbs’ suited her,
> not me, puffing behind my muscled
> peer group on their pushbikes.
>
> After his death, my sister said:
> you know what he’d call you
> behind your back? - pukeko legs.
>
> The New Zealand swamp hen!
> Thanks, Dad. They’ve served me
> longer than your dicky heart let yours.
>
> I was once dropped from a School
> Cadet drill squad - my shape would spoil
> their khaki uniform Anzac strength.
>
> Now I learn the term ‘spindle-
> shanks’, but won’t teach my kin
> to use it in my hearing.
>
> For years I wouldn’t wear shorts -
> the only long-pants guy at the beach!
> Jeans I thought too clinging.
>
> Thighs, knees, calves, ankles - none
> suited, though I liked my feet.
> I joined a gym too late for any
>
> muscle-building - and the gear,
> tracky-dacks, daggy in the extreme,
> helped put me off going back.
>
> Now I step out first thing each day
> to let the dogs relieve themselves,
> myself relieved to show the empty
>
> street my shanks - saggy pajama-
> pants under my rain-jacket, sad
> at my thighs as I return upstairs.
>
> Stephen Spender, who was tall, said
> the best poets were the short guys.
> I think continually of those
>
> who are truly of medium size.
>
> On Jun 17, 2015, at 5:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ah, you might yet, Jill. It's not really a problem anyway. Maybe I just buy big dacks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 17 Jun 2015, at 10:36 pm, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks, Bill, that I had such problems.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 17/06/2015, at 8:03 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Spindle shanks
>>>>
>>>> You know you're getting spindly
>>>> when you slip first your foot
>>>> then your whole leg
>>>> into your dacks
>>>> and hit no
>>>> cloth
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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