A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Poem by Ted Sheridan

Ted this is a fantastic poem...I'm from from LA so i get the reference, i get the way it is in LA as a 'get beat down or beat down' city. The Forum being the center for battle, like the Romans, that city loves it's gladiator heritage. the poem asks me: Do I?

Ted, have you not read my (304) A Funny thing didn't happen on the way to the Forum? It gives us a little inspiration now and then, if little else. LOL Danny

This is the forum I know and love. Ah Ted... come away in and join us. You'll love it...It must have inspired hundreds of poems! ! A new species of war poetry! Take care sir.

Oh, yes, teh heh heh! Actually sweetheart, caustic wit and all, you're mightily talented. t x

Well Ted, there are those whose goats are always gotten - as the saying goes. The forum is like a freak show on most days and every so often someone says something that is about poetry. This made me laugh, as do most of the participants at the forum....not a whole lot of substance, IMO. Thanks for being your brilliant self and writing about things from your own delicious perspective.

Interesting approach here to The topic of forums and how unforgivinly fellow poets judge each other

i feel the fence sitter's splinters, too, but oh how i love the forum!

Funny how we love pain! Nice write Ted!

'Now, class, Say this fast, Five times in a row, So you'll all know: ' FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS FENCE SITTER SPLINTERS! ! ! Now, once you have wiped the spital off your faces, You may resume your places! '

This was great man, Funny in such way people don't see much of anymore. Thank you for a great start to my day =)