“This winter
I hope you get a splinter
if you make a toboggan
and it is a mahog'un”

— John Hegley

"Poem about not using tropical hardwoods because it diminishes the rain forests"
Glad To Wear Glasses (1990)

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British writer, musician and comedian 1953

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