John Howard Reid
ASIN: B017UBN332
Publisher: Reid Books
Pages: 30
28 new humorous poems make their debut in this little anthology by award-winning poet, John Howard Reid. The best way to illustrate their appeal (or lack of appeal) is to publish a sample here. This is not necessarily the best poem in the book, but it is certainly the shortest: "Diamonds in the Rough": "My purblind wife depends on me / Though she often says I’m lazy as can be / Lazy as a circus elephant invited home for tea / Or a bee who takes a day to perfect a honey recipe / Lazy as the stars who lie down around the sky / Or a gremlin in the garden with his finger in the pie / Or a snail who takes a whale of a while to slide from here to there, / then closes down and goes to sleep just anywhere."