A blinged out shrimp, a former beauty queen who embraces her inner hog after meeting the swine of her heart, and a couple of gender confused snails.

What can these critters possibly have in common?

Why are they thrust together in this often rowdy, sometimes bawdy, but never boring look at what it means to be an odd duck?

Formatted to look like a beat up old notebook, --just the type this riotous gang would carry -- or leave behind -- these forty poems for teens (and adults) will provide a little insight into the weirdo inside all of us.