Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the first day of National Poetry Month, a celebration most people observe by deleting Poem-a-Day emails. Today is also the most important secular holiday of the year: April Fool’s Day. And I am Marie of Romania, as Dorothy Parker would say. Actually I’m as serious as a person […]
MoreTo write my last post I had to look up the cast of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I came across an amusing bit from the script. Terry Thomas, playing his usual upper-crust Englishman equal parts outraged and dastardly, serves up this rant on an American obsession: “As far as I can […]
MoreBooks in the bathroom are as essential as toilet paper. But not to be used for the same purpose, except in cases of emergency. And then only if the book is already full of what it will be full of if used for such purposes. For one (back to reading books, not wiping with […]
MoreO Luxury by Guy Longchamps O what a luxury it be how exquisite, what perfect bliss so ordinary and yet chic to pee to piss to take a leak To feel your bladder just go free and open like the Mighty Miss and all your cares go down the creek to pee […]
MoreNational Poetry Month, scheduled to begin today, April 1, has been cancelled due to lack of interest. “I’m disappointed,” said poetry fan Mary Hathway. “I was ready for some kick-ass parties.” Local libraries have cancelled poetry readings and contests. “Poem-a-day” apps for the iphone are still available but can only be downloaded once a week. […]
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