When New Jersey Governor Brendan T. Byrne
first meet comedian Bill Cosby for tennis
Byrne served up the line
“You’re a comedian, tell me a joke.”
Cosby’s backhand,
“You’re a politician, tell me a lie.”
Wit and wisdom.
That we may have more of both,
in our politicians
and our late night comedians.
Ray Brown
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Wit and Wisdom
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Birds on Furlough
Posted in Birds on Furlough, Journal of Life, New Jersey, tagged birds, CWA, furlough, jobs, New Jersey, NJEA, patriotic duty, poems, poetry, poets, politics, public employees, Star Ledger, Star Ledger of Newark, unemployment, writing on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A patriotic resident of New Jersey
I put my birds on furlough.
No tinkle of bird seed in the feeders on Fridays this year.
The first week they appeared on my window sill
no warm morning songs of greeting
questioning little expressions.
They had heard about these cutbacks
from their friends in other communities
their vacant eyes incredulous
if they could verbalize, would say [...]
