My poem “Can’t I’m Booked” is live at https://thecandidreview.org/cant-im-booked/. I am grateful to the editors for taking this piece, and to Joanna Drake for providing the title way back in 2016. It took a while to find a home for this poem…
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Congrats Robert and that last line had me chuckling!!🤭
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Thanks very much, Cindy. 😄
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You’re so welcome and I laughed more than once💗
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Laughter is one of my favorite medicines!
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love your continuing to continue
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Day by day!
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Loved this, Robert!
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Thanks, Betty. I’m happy that it found a home!
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congrats, Robert!
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Thank you, Beth!
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Great title and what an ending! The poem is so on the money, love the humour. Congrats, Bob!
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Thanks, Lynne. I seldom need to make excuses these days, and alas, washing my hair is no longer a valid excuse. 😃
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Wait, all this time I’ve been a recluse, I could’ve been receiving benefits from the Hermits Union? How do I apply for my card?
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The first rule of the Hermits Union is we don’t talk about the Hermits Union…
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Minds me of a Spider Robinson book about a sax player in which I learned about musical phrasing. Totally random thought, but there you go. I like this one.
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Ah, Spider Robinson! Wasn’t he the one who said librarians were the secret masters of the universe? A man after my own heart!
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Precisely. Don’t ever piss one off. As a Heinlein fan, I must have Spider for dessert.
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Librarians have always possessed god-like status with me. They know things!
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Congratulations on your publication, Bob! I’ll pass on accompanying the speaker to his colonoscopy.
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Ha! Thanks, Liz. That seems to be the consensus. 😀
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You’re welcome, Bob. 😀
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The more friends we have, the more invitations we are forced to refuse. It’s such a curse.
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So true!
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Congratulations!
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Thanks, Andrew.
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You’re welcome, Robert.
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Congratulations! Being also of the hermitic persuasion, I’m trying to learn to keep those refusals simple, but I’m not always successful. (K)
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Plus-one at a colonoscopy. There’s probably a waiting list for that.
Congrats, Bob.
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Ha! And thanks, Ken.
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Smiled a lot read that one. Laughed at least once:
“I’ve got to wash my hair the lice are breeding”
Yeah, that should work.
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Nowadays my excuse is rather dull. I’d rather make up one!
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