Book 5: Humor

Table of Contents:
1. Ode To An Ode
           Yes, a song about a song  (22)
2. By The Numbers
           A sestina that will have you asking, "Does anybody really know what time it is?"  (39)
3. Life As A Shoelace
           Caution: puns  (14)
4. Grandma's Bathroom
           A prose poem about...grandma's bathroom  (7 sentences*)
5. I Don't Have The Rhyme
           The difficulties of rhyme and cliche...yeah, well, see if you can do any better!  (16)
6. A Pyramid To Selfishness
           A form poem of my own invention, with a lament to my present impecunious state  (26)
7-18. Crazy Horse Poems #1-12
           Crazy poems that are not about horses; explanation inside  (12 poems, 85 total lines)
19. To: [Insert Your Name Here]
           The cheesiest and most generic of love songs  (21)
20. Why I'll Never Be A Cowboy
           A country song about the cowboy life; caution: irony  (25)
21-24. Crazy Horse Poems 2: #1,5,7,8
           Various collected shorts  (4 poems, 32 total lines)
25. A Camel I!
           A song about how great it is to be a camel!  (28)
26. If I Were An Evil Dictator
           A song inspired (sort of) by the war... What would YOU do if you were an evil dictator?  (30)
27. Sandtrap Oasis
           A challenge given to me to write a hit song in 10 minutes or less. [FYI, "Hodgie" is the G.I. term for an Arab/Kuwaiti/Iraqi.]  (20)
28-32. A5 Ma Gnome Raps
           Certainly the craziest and most bizarre poems I've written yet, they have a mysterious secret as well! Will they stump you? Probably!  (20)     NEW!!

* A prose poem's defining units are sentences, not lines

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