Poems for Your Weekend

PoetryRx: make me laugh

Dear Friends,

I don’t know about you, but I dearly need to laugh. So, this week, I solicited prescriptions for funny poems. Yes, there is such a thing as a funny poem.

Poems can be every bit as unserious, slapstick, and ridiculous as life is, and they share a great deal more in common with jokes than we might initially think. Both rely on wordplay and a w…