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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2008 : Rick Lupert
OH MY THINGIES
Oh my kitty
oh my doggy
oh my fishy
oh my Bushy
oh my Iraqy
oh my Osama Bin Soup ladel
oh my boobonic plague
oh my Spanish Inquisition
oh my coco puff
oh my chocolate porcupine
oh my snotty hairy baby
oh my hit me in the face with a skillet
oh my drink wawa or dehydrate
oh my panoply
oh my fleet of windshorn dinghies
oh my free cheese
oh my autistic vision
oh my poppa ooh poppo ooh
oh my map to the stars home
oh my CALIGULA!!!!!!!!!!
oh my Pavel Checkhov
oh my-pod
oh my extra spleen
I like kitty best
Sent as a joke to Poetry.com, this poem won an honorable mention in the 2008 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Author Rick Lupert received a cash prize of $72.95.
About Rick Lupert
Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He served for two
years as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, a twenty-five-year-old non-profit
organization which produces a readings and publications out of the San Fernando Valley. His
poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles
Times, Chiron Review, Stirring, PoeticDiversity.org, Zuzu's Petals, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major Internet resource for poets. He was the winner of the very first Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest (prepare yourself before clicking) in 2002, and won an honorable mention in 2007.
Rick is the author of 11 books: Paris: It's The Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew. Are You?, Stolen Mummies, I'd Like to Bake Your Goods, A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast (Ain't Got No Press), Lizard King of the Laundromat, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town (Inevitable Press), Feeding Holy Cats and Up Liberty's Skirt (Cassowary Press). He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California.
Currently Rick works as a music teacher and Marketing Coordinator at Temple Ahavat Shalom in
Northridge and as a freelance graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his
mortgage.
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