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image by Valentina Kallias ~ “Apocalypse Horseman Pestilence”
Maryann was a jokester
She lived the other side of the black stump.
She spent half her days on a combine harvester
The other on a stump jump plough.
The farm was her life
Morning till night was tilling one day
Harvesting the next.
Her dad decided on her twenty-first birthday
It was time she saw the world.
He gave her a ticket to go and see
The big city at the end of the line.
She landed there and was all amazed
So many people and so much noise.
There was no shortage of callow-faced youth
Nor of the rich up themselves haughty.
She was invited to the Toff and Tie Ball
Dressed in her finest, combed her hair.
All went well until she opened her mouth.
Out spewed her country vernacular
A combination of bloody, struth,
Bugger me britches and workin’ me tits off
Didn’t go so well with the refined young men
Who turned away, scoffed and remarked
How quaint this girl from the country was.
Maryann the jokester
Went home to practice her vowels
Learn a little social etiquette.
She practiced every day when on the tractor
Rounding her mouth as she enunciated “I say.”
But there was no hiding from who she was
When one day in town she met her true prince
No frog in waiting but a man of true blood
Who looked at her and saw the girl who was there.
‘Be who you are,’ he said softly to her
‘Bloody oath I will.’ Said Maryann with relief.
For Maryann realised it was who she was
That endeared her to her one true love.
Maryann was a jokester, that’s who she was.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/photo-challenge-86/
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I love a girl who knows who she is and even more, love a guy who loves her for it. Fantastic read, Michael 😊
Thank you Mandy for stopping by my humble little blog to read my words on this image……
Always a pleasure, Michael!
I agree with Mandy–totally!!!
Thank you J, you must be such a discerning woman…..
Some days, maybe 🙂
lol……wisdom and age J, they go hand hand in hand….
Yes, you’re so right, Michael….oh, that we could be wise when we’re still young, sprightly…and gorgeous!!
Tell me about it wisdom when we are decrepit old and on the wrong side of gorgeous and no one to listen to us other than those in a similar situation.
I know, it’s plum pitiful, ain’t it! (laughing in spite of it all !)
I’d much rather hang out with the likes of Mary Ann than with those stuffed shirts any day!
My late paternal grandmother’s name was Mary Ann. She wasn’t nearly so laid back as your lovely heroine, though. She wasn’t a stuffed shirt, but she was rather serious.
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Thank you so much for stopping by….I agree having known a few Maryann’s in my time, rough around the edges but salt of the earth always good fun to be around….hope you are doing ok…..
Ah be true only to thy self …and of course in front of others who allow it. This is so not what I thought I would read looking at the photograph. Bless our crazy little minds and where they take us! Good on ya Maryann ..you remind me of me (on occasion) 😉
Yeah well Jen I’ve ya torkin so I know what you sound like…lol…..thanks for stopping by….
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Thanks for your fascinating and imaginative response to the photo prompt! totally unexpected – but that’s a great thing – one can never know where an imaginative soul like yourself will land! I really like your heroine Michael 🙂 She has great self-respect and worth – awesome and empowering!
Thank you Pat I found my muse went to Maryann and there you have it……great prompt by the way…..
This was lovely Michael!!! A story of integrity and being yourself. Love happy endings too 🙂
Thank you Oliana it’s where my muse took me today…..
She did good!!! and love the dialogue!!
She spent half her days on a combine harvester
The other on a stump jump plough. I loved these lines. I love the moral at the end it is one I try to instill in my own daughter =)
Thank you Yves I am often surprised where I go in response to these images but I like this girl too.
I can understand your and other’s fondness for MaryAnn.
Yes she’s an interesting character all right….