Poetry for Men
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Poetry for Men
By Glenn Dromgoole
Poetry for Men isn’t your typical poetry chapbook. It deals in short, practical, easy-to-understand verse with topics that many men can relate to:
Hunting, Mowing, Shaving, Dogs, Sex, Love, Camping, Cars, Pickups, Baseball, Football, Weather, Aging, Life & Death, In-Laws, and why are there so many pillows on the bed!
A few examples from the book:
Poetry for Men
Why don’t you write poetry for men?
Instead of that mushy stuff about
love and nature and women’s breasts
(well, maybe women’s breasts),
put more testosterone in your tone:
driving your pickup to the deer blind
and shooting and dressing a buck,
making a buck and drinking whiskey,
picking your nose and belching,
and stuff like that – poetry for men.
An Old Pickup
It didn’t have any AC,
the paint job was faded,
it had a lot of miles on it,
wasn’t worth much as a trade-in,
But it just seemed to know
where to find a café that served
a good chicken-fried steak –
with cream gravy, of course.
It didn’t have any AC,
the paint job was faded,
it had a lot of miles on it,
wasn’t worth much as a trade-in,
But it just seemed to know
where to find a café that served
a good chicken-fried steak –
with cream gravy, of course.
Pillows on the Bed
Evidently we men just don’t understand
why a bed needs to be piled high with pillows.
It must be something about our male genes
that makes us think you only need one pillow
for every person who is sleeping in the bed,
not counting, of course, those for propping up
so you can watch TV.
What’s the point of all those other pillows?
At night you take them off the bed
and pile them up somewhere in the room,
only to put them back on the bed
the next morning after the bed is made.
Seems kind of pointless, if you ask me,
but, of course, you didn’t.
Now you get the idea of the level of poetry in this short book!
Paperback, 32 pages, 5.5×8.5″.
Glenn Dromgoole is the author of a number of books. See available books in print here.
