Saturday, January 23, 2021

no dancing

my father
likes his jokes.

blonde jokes, especially.
he laughs
before he gets to the punch line,

then coughs and has
to get up

for kleenex and cough
drops
and a bottle of water.

then he tells me
the punch line five
minutes later.

to which i laugh, maybe a
little harder
than i should.

then he starts with one more,
one more he says.

why don't baptists make
love while
standing up,

why, i ask him,
because they don't want 
people to think

they're dancing.

No comments: