The Usefulness of Hippopotamus: A Humorous Chapbook for Trying Times

By Vincent J. Tomeo

Humor is the Best Form of Medicine

 

Humor is the best form of medicine. It helped me get through cancer, and a pandemic, as I laughed my way back to my health. To help me cope with my condition, cancer, and the pandemic, I wrote a humorous chapbook: The Usefulness of Hippopotamus: A Humorous Chapbook for Trying Times. Winner of

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliant Books Literary
• Release date: Sep 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798889453475

Vincent J. Tomeo

Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet, and was nominated twice for pushcart prize, Archivist, historian, and community activist. Vincent, is published in the New York times, evening street review, Comstock review, mid-America poetry review, edgz, spires, tiger's eye, by Line, mudfish, the blind Man's rainbow, the Neo Victorian/Cochlea, the Latin staff review, and grandmother earth (Vii thru xi), etc.To date, Mr. Tomeo has 1,064 published poems/Essays; The winner of 108 Awards; 149 public readings. Author of my cemetery friends: A garden of encounters at mount saint Mary in queens, New York, and the Usefulness of hippopotamus: A humorous chapbook for a trying times.

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The Usefulness of Hippopotamus

Copyright © 2023 by Vincent J. Tomeo

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979-8-88945-346-8 (Paperback)

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979-8-88945-348-2 (Hardback)

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Introduction

The Usefulness of Hippopotamus: A Humorous Chapbook For Trying Times.

It is often humor that helps one cope with the most challenging, stressful, unheard, and unpredictable circumstances during trying times. And so often, we return to humor to help us endure and get through challenging times. Now, as I look back on my life, I must laugh at the encounters that I thought at the time to be the most difficult, embarrassing, and unbearable situations. And so, I have written this chapbook. Walk with me into a poem, laugh, smile, and this will make your day brighter.

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