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Monday, November 29, 2021

Take His Wife

Henny Youngman 

We're In Trouble Yesterday

 

 By yesterday I mean today.

By today I mean pick a day.

By Henny Youngman I mean yes.

“My country is so big, when it sits

around the country, it sits around

the world.”

“Take my country [heh heh],

Putin.”

“I booked passage on a one-liner.

Take my wife. Please?”

By my wife I mean my wife.


Sarah Sarai, 2021

First published in Mollyhouse: Issue Two. Apple Books. Raymond Luczak, editor. Poem rights: Sarah Sarai. Feb. 2021. Purchase on Barnes and Noble.