Welcome to the quite exciting world of Limpalong Cassidy!
That is my real name as I don't believe in silly fake names!
THINGS REALLY DON'T GET MUCH DREARIER THAN THIS!
People often ask me if I am related to the famous cowboy Hopalong Cassidy
and I have to say that I don't really know if I am related or not,
mainly because I am not a practising genealogist, but I think it's quite
likely as my father had the IQ of a 10 year old boy and my mother was a fat cow.
How did I get my fascinating name is another searching question
which I am frequently asked, and it's a very interesting tale.
My name is based on four related facts: [1] my left leg is about six inches shorter
than my right one, [2] my parents' names were Clarence and Edna Cassidy,
[3] they both had a brilliant sense of humour, and [4] the priest
who baptised me took them at their word and then it was too late.
What sort of poems do I write? I don't know, you'll have to be the judge of that.
But here's what someone kindly wrote as a comment on my most recent poem:
"I would like to say that this is one of the best poems I have ever read in all
the years I have been here at Allpoetry. I would like to say it but I can't get
my mouth round the words, without breaking out in a sweat of shame and insincerity.
Thank you for entering my contest and I wish you the best of luck in the contest.
Christ knows you will certainly need it."
I think that's the greatest compliment I have ever received in my life,
so you can imagine what the others must have been like. Needless to say I
didn't win that contest either.
There's quite a few poets here whose work I really admire and I hope you will
read them:
Galloping Plague
Stuttering Hen
Fatarse
Lonely Spaghetti
In Flagrante Potato
Nostrildamus
The Great Gobbo
Bruce Bignose
Not Waving Just Drowning
If you'd like to join my AP family of failures and inadequates, please drop
me a line as no one has sent me a message for a few months now.
Last seen on Aug 15 7:44 AM. Member since July 22, 2006.
I'm a murine misconception poet for 68424 comments.
MY MOOD IS BLANK, AND QUOTE IS My Name is Limpalong Cassidy and I limp along.
I am a lopsided man (Ireland)
I AM IN THE GROUPS A bright shining dark black sad emotional place of utter doom and depression, One-legged poets, If you're Irish don't blame me, Uncle Apples' playground for retards and dwarfs, O'Leary's lesbian lovers league, Poets without any trophies, Allpoetry's least popular poets, Overweight men who like to tango clumsily, Secret sex criminals, Bagpipe lovers, A meeting place for people with pebble glasses
I HAVE 68424 COMMENTS, 1 CONTEST
Adding your comment:
You must have cracked up writing it because I fell apart with laughter and admiration as I read it. 
The thought came to me that I WISH I could meet all you poets in this contest IN PERSON and then I would kidnap you all and start a poet's commune/cult where we would live riotous lives rhyming. 
