DEAR ABBY: A local ratio station sponsored a contest where listeners submitted poems about their hometowns. I thought you might like to have a copy of mine. -- LORI J. BENNETT, FORT WORTH, TEXAS
DEAR LORI: You thought right. I like your poem, not to mention your sense of humor. Read on:
MY HOMETOWN
For years I've proclaimed with bravado
To friends and colleagues alike,
That my hometown was in Colorado,
The state with the peak named Pike.
I've boasted of snow and the ski slopes
And of crisp, clear skies of blue.
But my bragging was nothing but false hopes
And so I'm confessing to you:
In truth, it wasn't the Rockies I saw
On the day I was born.
It wasn't a landscape, rugged and raw,
It was only a field of corn.
The purpose of this little ditty
Is so all of the world will see,
I was really born in Sioux City,
Home of Abby, Ann Landers and me!