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I wish I lived in a commercial, perfect people who all dance and sing, perfect clothes that they wear perfect smiles, perfect hair perfect children, who'll eat anything. The products they use are all perfect, they do a good job every time, no-one having to soak, just a chisel-jawed bloke with a squirty gun, cleaning the grime. The holidays always seem sunny, the cars have a glistening shine, the sofas sat on are nigh twenty feet long and not frayed, with some cat hairs, like mine. Healthy oldies discussing their pensions and taking out funeral plans, I don't care about death, just maintaining my breath and making it upstairs while I can. If I bought everything that they offer, maybe I'd then be a perfect bloke but I've checked the amount that's in my bank account and I'd end up both perfect and broke.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 4/29/2018 10:43:00 PM
What a ripper of a poem Viv that should be used as an ad on the telly to warn people - Lindsay
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Date: 2/24/2018 10:53:00 PM
it is another reality you have pinpointed regarding our commercials where everyone is perfect ........Hero always get his love. ..Hero always win.......hero never dies.....hero kills the whole army...so perfect....... it's awesome sarcastic humor no doubt. The way you painted it is really awesome
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Date: 2/23/2018 9:43:00 PM
I wouldn't be perfect... but perfectly broke. Still smiling,. bbn
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Date: 2/18/2018 10:52:00 AM
Another fun write!
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Viv Wigley
Date: 2/18/2018 11:16:00 PM
Thanks, Richard, amazing where we get our insiration from, eh? Regards, Viv
Date: 2/15/2018 4:44:00 PM
Viv.....you are a perfect bloke in my eyes. If food be the way to a man's heart, then humour is the way to mine.
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Date: 2/18/2018 11:16:00 PM
Thanks, Jean, my fave Colleen. I've never met a dull Irish person. But then my mother was a Dubliner, so I'm biased x
Date: 2/13/2018 10:10:00 PM
Delightful poem, Viv. Being perfect is overrated.
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Date: 2/18/2018 11:17:00 PM
Thank God!
Date: 2/13/2018 5:54:00 PM
fantastic sarcastic humor, Viv. I really love your wit and style in this kind of poetry!
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Date: 2/18/2018 11:17:00 PM
Thanks Andrea, for pitying my bouts of waffle x
Date: 2/13/2018 5:34:00 AM
This is awesome, reminds me of a song called perfect by Pink... Such is advertising, normally just lies and over exaggeration...
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Date: 2/18/2018 11:18:00 PM
Thanks, Silent, I was thinking of the song 'oh Lord, it's hard to be humble'. Regards, Viv
Date: 2/13/2018 4:07:00 AM
- Viv, a wonderful poem with humor ... nothing is perfect ... photo and advertising lies :))) ... love the end :))) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 2/18/2018 11:18:00 PM
Taak, Anne-Lise, yes, we're being brainwashed. Viv x

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