Monday, August 7, 2017

HEADLINES & VERSE. Monday. August 7. 2017


FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON WANTS HIS WIFE TO WORK FOR HIM. 

A husband who works with his wife
Is bound to find plenty of strife.
At first they are thrilled,
Then tension will build --

It ends with a scream and a knife.


AT THE BEST RESTAURANTS, DISHWASHERS OFTEN BECOME PARTNERS

At the heart of ev’ry hash house is the man who does the dishes;
His work is long and hard and wet; the cutlery is vicious.

Yet he does not complain as steam envelopes his physique.
This is not a job for lollygaggers or the weak.

It pays ten bucks an hour, and with leftovers so thick
It makes the strongest trencherman just a wee bit sick.

Who are these men of cast iron, who tussle with such grease?
Is their loyalty complete, or does it ever cease?

No chef can do without them, so the smart ones recognize
They’d better cut ‘em in when they are going to franchise.

Oh, I have washed some dishes in my time when I was young --
But all I ever got was just the lashing of a tongue.

So I became a poet -- and my hands are lily white,
and can’t afford to eat where a dishwasher is in sight.



NORTH KOREA THREATENS ATOMIC RETALIATION FOR U.N. SANCTIONS

The U.N. has sanctions galore
For countries when they make them sore.
A slap on the wrist
Makes no one desist
From starting a nuclear war.

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