Ginger And Fred
human imagination roams wild
soaring free atop mundane days
wild ideas coming from nowhere
weird notions, even funnier ways
I helplessly fantasise with women
shutting my eyes to imagine bliss
with movie stars and weather girls,
its them I fondle, cuddle and kiss
my Ginger boasts assets to die for
she's what any man would desire
yet for all her wondrous charms
she's lacking Rita Hayworth's fire
when we get down to brass tacks
and my mind fills with flaming hair
Rita's ruby lips render me a gigolo
endless pins more than I can bear
Ginger just shocked me to my roots
confessing she does much the same
but told me not to worry too much
for its her, I'm not the one to blame
she's long seen me as Fred Astaire
that balding pate turned on her lust
despite him being defunct for years
those twinkling butchers mere dust
so now, when us pair hit the sack
before the off we carefully arrange
who is imagining whom, and how,
conversations admittedly strange
tonight, I've gone for Angela Merkel,
Ginger's plumped for Groucho Marx,
we can't wait to pull over the duvet,
shut our eyes and await the sparks!
Robert Haigh
Sun 13th Sep 2020 12:43
I'm still smiling at this as I type my comment, Simon. A highly amusing write, with more than a hint of truth for many of us, I suspect!