“Shut your eyes. Put one foot in front of the other and follow the line until I tell you to stop. Hmm! You’ll have to do better than that, your right foot is a country mile from the line. Careful you don’t fall. Oopsy Daisy!” The policeman made a sign to his colleague to help the drunk rise to his unsteady feet and set him moving again.
“There has to be a better way than this of proving a man has taken a drink too many. When I have a spare minute I’ll have to find a way to measure alcohol on the spot.” The PC had a flair for invention, akin to casting spells. And he invented the gadget known to all addicts of car chasing cop programmes on TV as the breathalyzer.
Blow into this, please ─
keep going, keep going, Sir.
Over the limit.
I’ve clumsily combined the Sunday Whirl wordle words with a cautionary tale for Haibun Monday at the dVerse poet’s pub. I’m rather ashamed
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Never ashamed- The words found the page in a straight line.
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Quite a blow when your blow will go
Not registering low!
(Will this qualify as a loescone?)
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🙂
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Viv, our Haibun challenge needed to have one of her photos included, and the poem written must have something referencing the photo. As this is a specific requirement, I am going to have to de-link your post. But the challenge is open all week…feel free to return.
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The Mister Linky link is to my second attempt, on prompt. Please don’t unlink it!
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I don’t understand. I do not see any of Gabriella’s photos. And I don’t see how a poem about a drunk can fit with any of the photos….
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That was yesterday, before I saw the prompt. The correct prompt is in Mister Linky, https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/rain-3/
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The link I removed was the incorrect link. I DID discover your haibun to fit the prompt by an obscure way. You might want to add the correct link now .
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Kindly see my comment on the Dverse site as well as on Suzanne’s of Artifactsandfictions.com please.
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I’m dyslexic and cannot walk a straight line, whether my eyes are open or closed. I am a sober failure! heh heh. I chuckled reading.
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and I wobble along soberly.
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Not clumsy at all, Viv. Good story-telling and a bit of fun!
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Very good haibun, Viv! A bit funny and that’s nice!
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