The Coming of the Toads blog is written by Joe Linker. Joe attended El Camino College and California State University at Dominguez Hills – earning a BA in English, with a minor in 20th Century Thought and Expression, and an MA in English. Joe teaches in the ADP program at Warner Pacific College.

“The Coming of the Toads” is the title of a short poem by E. L. Mayo (1904-1979):

               The Coming of the Toads

“The very rich are not like you and me,”

Sad Fitzgerald said, who could not guess

The coming of the vast and gleaming toads

With precious heads which, at a button’s press,

The flick of a switch, hop only to convey

To you and me and even the very rich

The perfect jewel of equality.

Mayo, E. L. Collected Poems. New Letters, University of Missouri – Kansas City. Volume 47, Nos. 2 & 3, Winter-Spring, 1980-81.

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