Dave Barry Freeps Poetry Scam Site [Vanity, but fun!]

Dave Barry's Blog ^ | 7/13/03 | Dave Barry

[Slings and Arrows]

From Dave Barry's Blog...

VACATION ADVISORY AND PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT

For the next two weeks, this blog will be on vacation in a large rural western state that might not even have electricity, let alone the Internet. So there will be no blogging, or at most very little, until approximately August.

MEANWHILE, however, this blog has a little project to amuse anybody who is interested, involving a wonderful site called www.poetry.com, which was brought to this blog's attention by alert reader Laura Stark. Aspiring poets can go there and submit poems in the poetry contest, and maybe even -- incredibly -- have their poems selected for inclusion in heirloom-quality-bound volumes that are -- What are the odds of this? -- for sale!

So anyway, this blog was just thinking how interesting it would be if a whole bunch of people submitted poems that contained a certain key poetic phrase. To see how it might work, this blog submitted a poem under the pen name of "Freemont A. Harkins," entitled: "A Sad Day." Here's how it goes:

A Sad Day

i am sad, so very sad
the tears run down my nose
it was a happy day until
the dog ate mother's toes

You can see this poem at www.poetry.com, using the search engine to search for "Freemont Harkins." Wouldn't it be fun if a lot of people submitted poems using a Pen Name that began with "Freemont" and incorporating the phrase, "the dog ate mother's toes"? Then we all could search for poems written under the first name of "Freemont" -- currently, this blog is the only one -- and see how creative everybody was!

Or would that be wrong?

Anyway, see you in August.

Love,

Freemont A. Harkins

posted by Dave href="2003_07_01_davebarry_archive.html#105811601228483717">1:06 PM

[Conspiracy Guy]

Shoot. It looks like I missed it. Too long ago. Think I'll make a late entry.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Just kidding. I aint sending my work to a scam site.

[VRWCmember]

You could always post your entry to this thread for our enlightenment.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Did you see the one I wrote for the black helicopter nut this morning.

Black Ops

I’ve seen the helicopters,
Lurking in the night.
I know that they are watching,
Hey what gives them the right?
To snoop on me and snoop on you,
I’m sure they’re shooting film.
Recording every word we say,
The future’s looking dim.
I think next time I hear them,
And I hope that it’s soon.
I’m dropping trou and bending,
I’m giving them the moon.

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