Great pick for the Front Page!!  Maggie

Thank you one and all for your kind words, and especially thanks to Jay for sending this up.

This honor, along with the royalty check of $19 from the sales of my first book (still available at lulu.com, btw), is one of the happiest moments in my life as a writer.

With gratitude and humility, Buddah Moskowitz

ha! fantastic. very much enjoyed.

For me, a poem that achieves exactly the opposite of what it is apparently setting out to do.

Thank goodness for those same twelve friends!  Glad to visit this one again!  lynn

Buddah..... wonderful front page!!!!  I'm doing the Buddah dance!!!  Congratulations.  I am an admirer of your humor and love that something of yours now graces the front page!

Laura

i'm so stoked for you buddha!!

Congratulations Big B.

Afraid I can't agree with this being some universalized formula. Maybe incredibly pretentious college-level English-department nerds see a point in flooding the world, or the inboxes of these 12 friends, with poetry that follows the formula, but it somewhat saddens me that this mentality is what dominates the collective of poets. Whatever happens when you just have something you want to get off of your chest? Whatever happened to poetry being a device for emotional expression? If all you're writing for is to elicit a smirk, doesn't that make you no better than the people writing ridiculously silly greeting cards with pictures of puppies on them? I'm not trying to insult you personally in saying this, of course. Maybe you feel the same way I do and you're observing it. I'm a gut-writer, so the type of poetry you describe always manages to piss me off.

Isn't that really the point of this piece?

Well I certainly hope so, if not, it sort of loses the emotions it evokes.

it clearly is, johnathan. Congratulations buddha.

You are really funny!!!!  ROTL

This piece is quite funny with its bitter irony and sarcasm, Buddah. I simply love it!
Vasile

Ha!  This is awesome.  Didn't catch it at first, then I loved it.