Day 20: ICPOTA

Who remembers that acronym? C'mon, you know you're old enough! (Okay, maybe you're not but I am!) It's the thing I think of whenever anyone mentions personal ads or classified of any kind. Ic Pota was a little character used to sell the classified in The Age newspaper and his name stands for "In the Classified Pages Of The Age". Ic Pota originally looked like this:

Then at some stage had a make over and got a new more tizzy outfit to look like this (Looks like he might have had some 'work' done too, I mean, check out those cheek bones!):

All this is leading towards today's prompt to write a poem based on the Personal Ads, so here's mine:

In the Personal Pages

desperately seeking

looks not important

30 – 40 but with a youthful disposition

fun-loving, care-free

traveller of the world

student of life

with a PhD from the School of Hard Knocks

seeking same

seeking friendship with a view to romance

seeking companionship

seeking a fellow traveller

seeking

desperately

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