A Day for Fools

It is the day
For jokes we play.
Be careful what you believe.
How easily one can deceive.
Friends and foes will have hearty laughs
Each time you lapse into certain gaffes.
Your eyes will widen; your face will turn red
As you stand there believing everything that was said.
Your friends should use caution, though, with their kitsch.
As the saying goes, karma is a bitch.

My Homage to Teddy G.

This blog post is dedicated to my students who were quite convinced that I was “going to go all Dr. Seuss” on them during class the other day.  Thanks for giving me the inspiration to create this one.

The world of writing is full of one too many a cliché.

I do not know how it became this way. 

If you cannot think of anything new and fresh to say,

Perhaps you should start over and throw your first idea away.

I made part of that rhyme in class, but I did not know it.

My students told me I should try to become a poet.

Not really…but I found it difficult not to show it.

I hope that I did not blow it.

As I always will say, keep your writing from sounding trite.

If you do not, your readers will be left with such a fright. 

Since you should strive to convey writing that is forthright,

Take a shot and give your readers a true delight.