A Comedian Not by Choice                                  


            Putty had a speech impediment
 
            The only time he didn’t stammer
            Was when he cracked a joke
 
            Which was also just about
            The only time
            We ever listened seriously
            To anything he said
 
            To tell the truth
            He was pretty funny
            Either way


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            Emanuel E. García, The Virtues of Calamity, One Hundred Poems2013