Madge - revised

[Erthona]

tumbleweed blown straw-blond hair,
The blown is incongruous. Tumbleweed blown looks just like tumbleweed not blown...except it's in a different place. Don't go there.

It's another way to say gusty wind, and the effect that has on a persons hair, although I do concede it is fairly regional.


and deep crevices carved in pasty skin The problem is brit. We also have "A pa-stee". Cornish often, spelt pasty...which is why I suggested pastry. Pastry can have crevices, cracks and contours. Sorry....but remember Dick van Dyke?

Sorry, but Cornish is a pretty small part of the world to be held up as the exemplar in this respect.

Definition #1 of pasty:
1. of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.



She reminds me of the Palmolive
dish-wash soap manicurist,This is jerky.That's all there is to say.

Very consistent with a person dragging something out of memory and having difficulty expressing it, it just kind of tumbles out, however, it is actually very succinct. This was a well known TV commercial in the US during the 60's. In this commercial, this woman "Madge" who was a manicurist, would have her customers soak their hands in this dish soap, before and while she was doing their nails to demonstrate how gentle it was on their hands, implying that washing their dishes with this soap would not make their hands look bad.


so I'm thinking her name might be
Madge...Not a name you hear much now.
That was from a time when if you were cool

That is what? Palmolive, soap, manicurist or Madge. Connect the dots.

As it starts with "Madge...Not a name you hear much now." I think it is fairly obvious what it is referring to.



and lit two, one for you and one for her.

Like it

Thank you, I did too.




She's obviously on the way to work;

"..her way", unless everyone goes the same way.

Concede, poor wording on my part.





while serving their purgatory on earth,
but it's hard for a felon to get a job these days. I would (how I hate writing that) put a period after "earth" then drop the "and".

I could break it up that way.

I can see through the heat distortion
swirling up from the earth
acting as a convection oven, Information overload. I got it all in the first line.


Yeah, I'm probably too attached to the convection oven idea

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Thanks Tom,

Dale