Sitting between my hopeful Romeo –
who reminds me of a cute piglet,
and someone I’ve nicknamed Jonathon Jo –
because his mouth is like an O.
Romeo hands me a coded compliment.
Jonathon Jo doesn’t understand.
His O expands until it looks as if he could swallow
a hog, whole.
I’m piggy in the middle,
caught between a man who may swallow a hog
and a cute piglet.
I kick my legs and giggle like a kid
at a joke I cannot share.
Posted for The Daily Post #Joke
©Jane Paterson Basil
Great imagery and the consistency with which you portray this theme of three little pigs really works well. I love the idea of a secret joke.
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Thank you! I spend a lot of my time laughing at private jokes. I’m beginning to think there’s something wrong with me 🙂
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I’m in, giggity giggity! MORE PIG PICTURES!
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I don’t know why, but that comment made me laugh more than anything else I’ve read of yours. I have to get changed again.
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Why is this the only way I can ever get women out of their panties? Sigh….
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Hey – don’t knock it.
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You’re right. Beggers/choosers, after all. I’ll take it.
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Haha – Gotcha – I’m a 61 year-old hag.
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Again: beggars/choosers. (And…bourbon!)
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Give us a shot of that, you romantic fool – I may need its anaesthetising properties after all these arid years.
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Here ya go.
God, that brings back memories of my youth and summers with “Uncle” Bill…..
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Ah – secret hugs – so sweet. Children need love.
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LOL! I think you need to look for some other company before you end up on the menu for dinner! 😀
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Oh! Hello Calen – I’m already having the most hilarious evening of my life, so it’s great that you dropped in, making me wet myself all over again with that comment. 😀 😀 😀
I’m taking the night off from the bench, although the way things are going, that may not help me much.
Oh dear – when my comments get cryptic, it;s a bad sign 🙂
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Now you have me curious! What ever are you giggling about?
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A conversation with a blogger I just found – it was pretty close to the bone. You’ve probably noticed I’m a bit infantile at the moment.
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Oh hell. You’re just letting your inner child come out and play. 🙂
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I guess you’re right – my inner child has been hiding in the cupboard for far too long 🙂
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I’m right in there with you !! Lol, roflmao, whatever the hell those others are – 🙂 🙂 🙂
Piggy in the middle – oink, oink, oink !!!
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I don’t know where this nonsense came from. A is not at all porcine, although B does have a mouth an O, which stretches when he’s confused. I’m scared to go out there tonight – A told me that B wants to ask me to go to his place and watch a movie with him. (He also told me that if A touched me he’d punch his lights out – it’s nice to feel loved 🙂 ) It’s not happening!
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It just gets better !!!!
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I’m having so much fun 🙂
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That’s fantastic !!
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Love this intimate little scene, Jane – so full of joy and giggles. Happy pig hunt 🙂
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Always remembering that I’m the one in the middle 🙂
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Nice place to be or uncomfortable? 🙂
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It was fun, but I’m bored with it now. They’re getting all soppy over me.
I’m not as nice as everyone thinks 🙂
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Haha! Good to enjoy these things for what they are. Look at you, beating them off with a stick! 🙂
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This is what a geriatric delinquent looks like 🙂 I think it was some kind of reaction to being surrounded by people whose lives have become stale. I don’t want to become like them – although my family and friends tell me there’s no risk of that.
Yeah! Anarchy in the sheltered housing 🙂
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Haha! No, no danger of you becoming stale, Jane. You’ll be spraying grafitti around town and smashing up bus stops next! 🙂
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Next? You’re a little out of date 🙂
Funnnily enough, a couple of months ago a young friend suggested we “Go painting together,” and I didn’t know what he meant until he gave me a list of the equipment I’d need. I turned down the offer 🙂
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You could’ve been the next Banksy! We have a lot of grafitti artists in Bristol – have a whole festival centred round it every year. You could come and spray paint some of our buildings 🙂
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Sadly all we get around here are amateurish tags – no real art. If I painted Bristol I don’t think Bristol would be happy – I’ve only ever lifted a spray can to brighten up a few boring white mannequins 🙂
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Practice makes perfect – you could start sneaking out at night to paint railway carriages. Or the side of your flats … 🙂
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The side? Why not the front? I could design a tag which pointed the blame at my horrid next door neighbour (Miss Trunchbull, from Matilda), and my artwork would depict all the neighbours who are constantly putting in complaints about other residents, being tortured.That would give them something to complain about 🙂
Honestly, they’re like a bunch of not very bright, and extremely bitter, children.
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Sadly, there’s a lot of not-very-bright bitterness around. I think the not-very-bright grow resentful about their lack of intellect and want to lash out at people who have ideas and can articulate them. You see it a lot in politics and in any town centre on a Saturday night. I’ll send you some spray paint as a donation for your worthy cause – plenty of flesh tones and Abattoir Red, then? 🙂
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A few bruise blues and putrifying purples would be useful too, if you would be so kind 🙂
It would help if the not-very-bright stopped reading the dailies and believing every one-syllable word in them, then going out to vote for you-know-what. The Suffragettes must be turning in their graves – a lot of them were working-class women who wanted to make this country a fairer place, but it seems we women have made little positive difference in recent years.
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Yes, you’re right. All those suffragettes and early female unionists like the London match girls and modern women are far more interested in the Kardashians than voting for the rights of their fellows. 🙂
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It’s shallow and shocking, and something else beginning with Sh.
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Shenanigans? Sheela na gig?
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Yes – that’s exactly what I meant 🙂
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🙂
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Great line: “His O expands until it looks as if he could swallow a hog, whole” I liked how you substituted O for mouth. Very creative.
I wrote my own version of the The Three Pigs called “The Three Lazy Pigs.” If you would like to read it, I am open to any feedback: https://christopherjohnlindsay.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/the-three-lazy-pigs/
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Thank you Chris. I’m glad you drew my attention to this poem. – it was written at a time when I wasn’t using punctuation. I’ve just re-read it and put the commas and full stops in.
I enjoyed reading your pig tale.
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