Thursday, February 28, 2008

Poetry collection preserved

Today's Dead Blog of the Day is submitted by long time BlogShares afficionado, M. Major. Congratulations, you have won yourself 200 chips for your outstanding submission, A Colostomy Bag Full of Poems.

Betty wonders whether you have any further information about the author of these ribald verses and whether we can expect more incredible additions at some stage in the future.

To give our readers a taste of the literary quality of the author, J.B., here's a short snippet from one poem which particularly caught Betty's eye as she glanced through this significant body of work, which ranges from satirical cowboy barnyard frolics (how appropriate for the Blogfarm!)to paeans about peers, neocons and other conmen whom the poet pokes mercilessly to thoughtful historical insights.

From "A Paltry Sum":

"And whenst the reaper cometh
to collect his deathly toll
the millionaire could just as well die
faced in Corn Flakes bowl

Yon Microsoft inventors
cometh nearer to their fates
each day that passeth quickly
is one less for even Gates."

We hope the Blogfarm can assist J.B. back to his calling, that he may be appreciated by those who seek contemporary verse rather than merely the below from "Bless You".

"Bless you Mr. Visitor Tracker.
Without you I would never
know how many people
search MSN and Google
for Colostomy and Colostomy Bag
and "Colostomy Bag fell off"
and all these other crazy searches
that make life worth living.
Bless you Mrs. Visitor Tracker."

2 comments:

Jay said...

thank you for the 200 chips, the poetry is my own and the blog is dead because the gmail account was deleted for unknown reasons post-google takeover of blogspot so I do not know how to access it. Thanks for reading it :) Jay aka M. Major

Blogging Betty said...

Hi Jay,

Have you taken up where you left off elsewhere? I'd love to read more of your work :)

Cheers


Betty