Below is a copy of an email that I sent to a fellow poet who was so tickled after reading one of my funny poems, she emailed asking if I had any others?
It just so happened that I had just finished one, so I thought I would give her a bit more to chuckle about.
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Dear Lisa,
I will send you my newest poem, but there are a few conditions, as this story is also about a poetry site.
1) You have to promise you will not take what I say the wrong way.
2) You have to promise that you will not get your feeling hurt if you have received a letter from poetry site concerning one of your poems being published in a book. Although I am sure your poems, as I know mine are worthy of being published.
3) You can't tell anyone, as I am not trying to tick off the poetry site nor do I want them to get/be mad at me.
4) You must go to the bathroom before you read on, so you do not pee yourself laughing.
The first three are the most important conditions though!

Lisa replied: OK, " I promise to keep and open mind and closed mouth as I sit on the commode, OK??
LOL! I can't wait! "

So here's my reply to Lisa,

OK, here's the (poop) about my other funny poem and the poetry site I mentioned.
When you post a poem on that poetry site, they send you a letter to tell you how great your poem is and because it's so great they have selected your great poem to be printed in their up coming great book of great poetry.
When I got my letter for my poem, My Masterpiece, I almost started to cry, it made me feel so good. I told everyone that would listen, because I was so proud of it.
Because there was no cost and I did not even have to buy one book, if I did not want to, I thought this had to be real and I felt they really wanted it because my poem was so great!
Because of it's greatness, not only did they want to give me a full page for my poem, but they also wanted to give me a full 2nd page across from my great poem for a Bio about me.
Now the page for the Bio did cost a bit if you wanted to have that in the book too, but not very much.
And although no one is obligated to buy one of these books, they are for sale and they are pretty affordable.
After you see the lay out with your name on it and you have been told again just how great you and your poem are.
You feel grrrrrrrrrrrrreat and you just have to have one, so you order and buy at least one! I bought 2!
I felt really special right up until I posted another poem months later, and due to my last name being Ruth.
They thought Ruth was my first name, so they thought I was someone else and they sent me the exact same, mass produced letter that I all most cried about the first time around.
Just the name was changed on this great letter, but I did not feel so great about it this time, I felt like I was a great big sucker.
Any and all poems can and will be published in their books, as they are hoping that you, like most of all the other poet's will buy at least one book.
This is how they make $$$$$$$$$$$.
When a friend disagreed with my theory, I thought that it would be fun to prove this point and just for the great fun of it, write a poem about a Big Brown Wet Turd.
So I could get that letter saying how great my Big Brown Wet Turd was. I would frame it!
It would be perfect for the bathroom.
Wouldn't that be the Chit?
No pun intended.
OK, maybe just a little pun intended.
So, I wrote and posted my Turd poem and I should be getting my letter in just a few weeks.
The titled is:

Everyone makes them

Although they're never quite the same,
we make them every day.

Some seem so big, but when you look,
they're gone, they swam away.

Most everyone will wait to start;
they'd rather be alone.

Maybe they think their copyright,
is what should first be shown?

If you ask, it's plain to see,
most really are a fright.

They always look and smell the same.
Big Wet Brown Turds alike.

By Ty Ruth