If You Pull a Long Face

IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE

If you pull a long face
Just because you had a bad day
That’s alright you won’t lose face
Everyone’s beset some hapless day

If you pull a long face
Day by day come what may
Better know it’s really out-of-place
To pull a long face in every way

Yet if you pull a long face
All your livelong dark day
You had better make an about-face
Or you’d end up in a fray

If you pull a long face
‘Cause none with you will play
Then you have lost your birth-place
You’ll not save face even if you pray

So if you pull a long face
No matter what or who comes your way
Give a damn who looks you in the face
Then you’re made of sterner stuff, not clay

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris,  2017

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 8/28/2017 9:46:00 PM
Clever pen! Enjoyed :)
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T Wignesan
Date: 8/29/2017 12:07:00 AM
Bonjour, Maureen ! Glad you enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek cleverness. That's why words bend over backwards to please. You have an acute eye. Wish I had time to visit well-wishers, but...but...with all the work I have waiting to be seized by the locks, I give up. Every good wish and thanks a million. Wignesan
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