Part-time Traverse City resident Mort Gallagher won a Florida contest for the best new poem about colonoscopies.
Gallagher submitted a limerick.
Prime Time
There once was a man in his prime
Who felt his life was sublime
He was told by his wife
Your health IS your life
And his polyp was caught just in time.The Bottom Line Poetry Contest was organized by a gastroenterology group in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Gallagher spends part of the year in Jupiter, Fla.
The contest received 230 entries from 34 states and seven countries.
May 28th, 2009 at 6:17PM
Ah, it’s just as well. My poem couldn’t be published without violating community standards of decency…..
May 29th, 2009 at 8:07AM
Reminds me of Haldane’s attempt along the same lines;
"I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact,
Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked"
May 29th, 2009 at 8:18AM
Jim: That is WONDERFUL. Thank you.