Here's the poem that's near the beginning of the book.
the MachoPoni poem
O, hear the tale of Machoponi,
Who longed to call fair Dust his "lovely."
But she would never look his way,
And by his side, she would not stay.
A Hero with blue ball was he,
'Cross Jagged Line he pranced bravely,
With tender scowl and broken heart,
The torn two halves so far apart.
Like licking ice cream gives such pain,
With throbbing hurting of the brain.
So, pain can come upon Fate's breeze,
To punish Lust, just like brain freeze.
And Beauty draws his lovesick gaze.
He stares at Dust with heart ablaze!
Like sprinkles atop ice cream surprise,
Bring cold that causes your demise,
Dust gets in your eyes.
This is the picture on the back cover of the Machoponi book. I've given him the nickname of Brogene. Perhaps I'll write something about him in the future!
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interesting fun fact about tinkerbell~
The copyright of Tinkerbell is owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital. J M Barrie bequeathed the copyright of his Peter Pan characters to the London children's hospital on his death in 1937. The hospital granted Disney permission to make their movies. According to this article, "The hospital's blanket copyright protection ended in 1987 -- 50 years after Barrie's death. Britain's Parliament then granted the hospital a perpetual right to royalties from any British publication.
The works are in the public domain in Canada, free of copyright restrictions. But in the United States, a 1976 law extended the hospital's copyright over the 1904 Peter Pan play and all works derived from it until 2023.
The hospital says its rights to the play and its characters entitle it to forbid U.S. sales of any competing works involving Peter Pan." … and that includes Tinkerbell.
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I'm Lotus Rose. I write books for Eraserhead Press in the bizarro genre, which is an underground form of literature. Learn more at bizarrocentral.com My novel entitled The Corruption of Innocence is available now! My latest book is ... Machoponi, a mature treatment of cartoonish ponies. All the info you need about it is at myspace.com/machoponi It is currently available at amazon.com. Here is its amazon page. I live in Austin, Texas.
