Joe Linker 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’s been teaching in the ADP program at Warner Pacific College since August, 2007.

 

 

 

“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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