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About the Book

With just a hint of Ogden Nash, this volume of light verse takes a sly, quirky look at the human scene, and finds in most of it a readily available source of mirth. For example. Foibles: “Reflections of a Gossip.” Aging: “Just too Old to be a Good Liar.” Naughty: “On Julia’s Clothes.” Strange predilections: “The Dung Beetle.” Critters: “How to Make a Cow Eco-friendly.” Vittles: “Last Words to a Lobster.” The joys of medicine: “Ode to a Colonoscopy.” Cheerful Nonsense: “Ode to a Pair of Missing Pants.” These poems are just a few of the 125 that comprise this new and witty compendium, designed, in the words of the sub-title, “to jostle your chuckle-bone.”

About the Author

Robert Gardiner has spent most of his adult life in a more than casual relationship with words. Four decades, as he puts it, “in the preaching biz” meant 1800 Sundays, more or less, finding the right words and dishing them out. When not occupied with churchy affairs, he also found time to be a serious author: his published work includes a book and a number of articles having to do with matters of religion, social ethics, amd public policy. But he is not all deadly serious either: one congregation where he preached called him “the funny man.” In retirement he has found .a “second career” as a writer of light verse. His first volume of poetry, FUNNY STUFF, hit the streets in 2008. Mr. Gardiner is a graduate of Amherst College, Crane Theological School, and Andover Newton Theological School. He and his wife Lorraine live on Cape Cod where, having enjoyed a number of summer vacations, they decided that a permanent vacation there would be just the thing.