The wonderful thing about Conlans Is Conlans are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of hair, Their bottoms are made out of feet. They’re bloggy woggy froggy bloggy Fun fun fun fun fun! But the most wonderful thing about Conlans Is I’m the only one! I’m the only one!
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Ode to Floyd
A few weeks ago I received the 250th comment on this here blog. Floyd wrote: this is a fine blog. … very apropos. In my head, I had promised a gift to the person who left my 250th comment. Then, with my fingers, I promised a gift to Floyd. As a PROFESSIONAL WRITER, you know [...]
12DB, Day 9: Poetry Blam!
A lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m pretty big on the Poetry Slam/Improv circuit. I won the title of “Fresno’s Chack Schmackinest” (poetry types—what can you do?) in 2006. I wasn’t in town for 2007, and we all know about the poets’ strike of ’08, but I’m hoping to regain my [...]
Poetic Justice
My senior year in high school, in my Literature class, we had a unit on poetry. We had to write a bunch of poems to be turned in, at the end of the unit, in a unique and creative way (i.e., not stapled together in a report cover). I think some of my classmates wrote [...]