Humor: Trapped in a Roomful of Poets by Mark Tulin

Trapped in a Roomful of Poets. Featured image by Luis Alvarez Catala, public domain, Wikipedia Commons. Excerpt:

“The first poet was an older woman. She came to the mic and announced that her favorite poet was Gertrude Stein because her friends said she looked like Gertrude Stein. She read a poem she wrote during a Paris vacation entitled, Whatever Happened to Alice B. Tookas - I Don’t Know. The poem was in three parts. The first part was terrible, the second part worse, and the third part horrendous…”