Born in Ben Keating,
Arabia, in 1950 to an American woman and a man who smoked
camels, John Blandly immigrated to the United States
in 1949. His poetry ranges from "o," about
modern stone-age people found in Java, to "The
Greatest Poem Ever Written," which might be about
a costume party in Istanbul. We're not sure.
Since many of us are still puzzled
by today's technology, he has tried to guide us through
tomorrow's challenges in such poems as "Work Started
On Y3K Problem," "Predicting The Future With
Fuzzy Logic," "My Mini-Landfill Website,"
and "Everybody Is My Twin."
Not content merely to prognosticate,
even as he acknowledges his vast ignorance, he has the
audacity to speculate on our common experience, in such
work as "Why the World Must End, and Why Not,"
"Action Junkies," and "Drink to me Only
with Thine Mastercard," among others, drifting
at times into old English.
He is concerned about your health
and safety.
That's why he wrote, "Don't
Walk This World in Anger," "Typo City,"
and "Compelling," and urges you to swiftly
seek medical attention, avoid getting assaulted or arrested,
and try to find the bright side of things, even if it
is one thousand miles away.
This little volume is easy, and
its burden light.
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