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An ode to the phantom ticker

That Phantom route ticker he's a clever young man,
he seems to know my every plan.

He is always there just before me,
he must get up early in the morning.

Casting his chalk left and right,
even if the holds are in plain sight.

Doing his art like a Jackson Pollock,
but does he know he’s just dropped a ……………..

I may have it wrong and it’s a femme fatale,
but it’s the same message so all is well.

Casting your dabs upon the rock,
you really are a little sod.

Buy yourself a brush they aren’t that much,
or try and blag a free one from Metlious. (other brands available)

We get our fun trying to work out the climb’s,
not just following your bloody line’s.

If you need to make a tick that’s ok,
just make sure you clean it away.

At the end of the day can we respect the rock,
and try not to be a massive ………. Tick monster.

In reply to ecrinscollective:

While the perpetrator of the chalky tick
Is assuredly a bit of a prick
The one that leaves me lost for words
Is the one who leaves their little turds

In reply to ecrinscollective:

What got me about your rhyme
Was the rather annoying apostrophe crime

In reply to ecrinscollective:

You could have ended with TickTock

In reply to DerwentDiluted:

The little ones are from rabbits, goats, sheep, hedgehogs, etc, they can't help it, they don't get toilet trained.

In reply to ecrinscollective:

Good effort...

In reply to ecrinscollective:

you right DerwentDiluted crapping at the crag is far worse, but tick marks are so easy to clean off, thats whats so annoying.

watermonkey I wasn't sure about the commas, being dyslexic I shied away from English and grammar at school, now I live in France I have the dreaded French verbs to worry about so kind of gave up worrying but like your rhyme.