Poetry

In Defense of Dr. Seuss (Screw the Hortons that Can’t Hear the Who)

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In Defense of Dr. Seuss (Screw the Hortons that Can’t Hear the Who)

Now it looks

that even books

are getting frisked, shackled and hand-cuffed

like common crooks.  Dr. Seuss

so filled with love, help and truth

has been banned and usurped

by Nazi hooks.  It is woke-ism

and toke-ism for dummies. 

No more chirp and burp

nor gizmo by baptismo.  

No more girls and boys

in separate locker rooms.  No more gender

toys like dolls, trucks or guns.

No Peter, no Paul, no John, just Buzz

words and phrases

like white erasers on a blackboard.  

                      Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books

Billboard Ravens

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“I can’t wait until I am reincarnated as a human being,” said a talkative raven.   He was sitting with twenty of his pals on a Burger King billboard overlooking a Tennessee freeway. 

The raven next him chuckled sarcastically, “To be a truck driver, I suppose?  How profound!”

“Probably thinks he’d have the where-withal for that yellow Mercedes and that hot chick behind the wheel,” another raven squawked. Continue reading →

Monster Monster

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MONSTER MONSTER is a children’s picture book about the monster under the bed, the ogre snake that squishes toys and the troll that eats little boys. A fun poem for kids that delves into the monstrous imagination of a child, that place where the closet monster really does exist. This is book 6 in the Rhyme for Young Readers Series by QuickTurtle Books®.

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