Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

Surprise Promotion

It might be time to call it quits
  I'm bursting out in sobbing fits
  My face is breaking out in zits
  
    For this job I am unfit
    My resignation I submit ... 

  What is this surprise promotion?
  To the farthest side of the deep-blue ocean

    That changes all my meshugineh notions
      ~ I've always yearned to speak Laotian



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  'Meshugineh' means 'crazy' in Yiddish.

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Sara Kendrick April 18, 2023 at 10:40 AM Oh!! Whoa!! Are you going to be doing the work online? Just kidding. That would be a shock to the system for a person to be sent to Laos. Thanks for sharing this one. Sara

Joseph P. DiMino April 18, 2023 at 10:08 AM Yep! I know someone in the state department, all over the world several times over. Finds it difficult to stay home for long stretches. Well said.