for the five plus two theme this week: gestures. we do this to tell people to be quiet, especially children. we tell them that if they don't behave, the boogie man (in the bowler hat) would come and get them.
and this is a two-fer as the mad hatters' theme this week is 'rhymes'.
The Man In The Bowler Hat
by A.S.J. Tessimond
I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.
I am the man they call the nation's backbone,
Who am boneless - playable catgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.
I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.
I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round.
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Where do you get your costumes? I always have to use this particular gesture when John remarks on something in a loud voice when I'm watching a thrilling programme! He doesn't watch so never thinks! ....and its far better that saying, Oh, wrap up"!
@maggiemae - not a costume. i saw a bowler hat at the dollar store so i got me one. and i wore suit today at work. i buy my props mostly from the dollar (or bargain) stores and sometimes i raid the grands' toy box. our two older boys have outgrown their toys and now the two younger ones are competing with me for the toys. :-) thank you, maggiemae.
What a fabulous shot, very stylish; that poem is so sad; reminded me of Eleanor Rigby - loneliness/invisibility it is all so unnecessary but such a bit part of this modern world.
@amandal - behold the bowler hat!