Share My Shorts #1: Adjusting My Freudian Slip is the first collection (probably not the last) of my short-short poems, ten lines or less. My idea for a short poem is to pack as much punch into as few words as possible, maximizing the impact. I feel that this compaction is one of the beauties of poetry. It allows a lot of thinking on the part of the reader within a short time frame and is easier to remember later. Beware you don't read too many at one sitting; they might be easy going down, but they have a tendency to explode inside you later. You have been warned! Introductory discount for lulu patrons.

This is the second book of Swoosh Family poems. So I guess you might like to know where the Swoosh family came from. The actual Swooshes are scribbles that live at the bottom of some pages in my written idea-journals. They started out as nameless, undistinguished scribbles to end a page and fill up an extra line or so at the bottom. Somewhere about three years in they began to take a particular shape that reminded me of faces so I began adding eyes and mouth indications. That gave them a personality in my jaded eyes. They were looking at me as I turned the page and they sort of reminded me of people I knew or knew about. I wrote a poem, then three, then three hundred or so. The family members and extended family members are not my own family necessarily, but are each based on people I have met, in some cases heard about; it's a writer thing I guess. Check these out; you may know some of them yourself.

This book contains more than birthday sentiment. That is the + after Birthday in the title. This book may be just a bit more expensive than some regular hallmarked cards. But it is infinitely more useful. Just check any or all poem pages you think apply to the recipient or occasion. Gift it with or without additional wrapping. It can be passed on as often as one likes with each new gifter marking their intention boxes in a different color. The recipient may read only those checked or dive in as deep as they can stand.

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