POETRY Reading: Yoga Pants, by Mimi Whittaker
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1m 19s
Performed by Val Cole
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POEM:
To the tune of Yesterday-With apologies to Paul McCartney
Yoga pants
I spend half my life in yoga pants
don’t do yoga, I don’t even dance
oh, I just live in yoga pants
Wintertime
cold outside but I don’t have to freeze
Used to garden in my dungarees
but yoga pants have set me free
Yoga pants
at the wash –I give a lonesome glance
in my robe it’s just an awkward stance
waiting for my yoga pants
My best years ahead
I have thrown out all my jeans
no more
zips and snaps
I’ve made peace with my ice cream
Ring the bell
friends at the door and I just have to tell
all the glories of my circumstance
oh I believe in yoga pants
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