[TurboZamboni]

whoever writes an ode to light rail wins.

my poem is to Jim Thompson.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Will most of them be above average?

[blueunicorn6]

A poem for Garrison.

Ou Sont Les Toilettes?

I saw the deer.
The deer saw me.
I took a crap.
The deer took a pee.

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[hosepipe]

AH!.. Ode’s or Limericks to Zero Obama.. The first Moocher.. The White Hut.. The Executive Latrine.. The Treasonator..

[jobim]

That's hilarious. The Writer's Almanac is a daily feature on PBS, which I catch every now and then quite by accident.

Every single poem he reads for the day is of a type.

Let me spontaneously write one of these types right at this moment:

The park bench where the young lovers sat
was strewn with newspapers
Left by the forlorn gentleman now walking
Along the pathway toward the museum under a grey sky,
And she turned to him and said:
I wonder if he was able to read the events of the day?"
And he replied:
"Sadness and regret make one literate in matters of the heart."
And then they in unison took long, slow drags from the muse within their cigarettes.

I taught high school English for 20 years, and I write poetry myself, so I have a particular interest in Keillor and what he presents to the public as worthy.

His ability to discern poetry of merit parallels his ability to analyze the passing political scene: utter failure.

[a fool in paradise]

The theme this year? “Dear you.” So the work must be a letter to a “specific, living person,” the rules state.

DRAT! I drew "Mr. Orange" in this poetry contest.

[razorback-bert]

Garrison, I pass
Kiss my___

[MNDude]

Once there is a man from Lake Wobegon
Who was on the radio and made me yawn
He was incredibly boring
That’s why I was snoring
He makes me puke on me lawn

[Fresh Wind]

He who writes upon these walls...

[bigbob]

English major may have wit
But Garrison Keillor is full of warm spit

[Chickensoup]

My goodness, is he still alive?

Needs to be in the death pool.

[dfwgator]

"You want poems I got f---ing poems."

[hoagy62]

I really used to like A Prairie Home Companion. I even attended a live show when he came to Spokane in 1998.

However, in 2009, he made a comment in an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune that the only healthcare Republicans should get is “aspirin and hand sanitizer” and that if it’s anything more complicated, they should die.

After that, I completely quit listening to the show. If the guy is going to act like a mean old bastard and diss me and mine, he can go to Hell and take his nasty-assed show with him.

[Yardstick]

PBS has a showman called Keillor
Whose radio raconteurs reel her
In like a fish
An easly caught dish
She was hooked when he claimed he could heal her

(No idea what this means but there you have it)

[CrazyIvan]

Here with rich and ridiculous display
the politician’s corpse was laid away.
Though many acquaintances jeered and slanged
I wept, for I had hoped to see him hanged.

[tumblindice]

Lake Woeisme—where the women smell strong, the men like to look at one another and every child receives a trophy for participating.

[Viking2002]

Here I sit, all broken-hearted,

Paid a quarter to.....um........

Hey, qot a quarter? Heh heheheheh.....