Just Joking

• Betty Turner, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2017

Jokes are supposed to be funny, right?
So I laugh along with your joke about that boy being a ‘faggot’
Because I feel your words too but then you caught me kissing a girl and suddenly you were laughing at me, not with me maybe that girl with the dark skin
Who struggled to live past 6 cause her mother was sick
‘She's a slave, she's a monster who has no emotions’ you say
Trying to keep your own emotions at bay
Is your joke funny now?
That some people don't have the basic right to get married
Their cry of ‘help; help; help me please’ is not heard
Politicians pick people who pick on people
Who can’t pick themselves up and press forward
Forever changing their opinion
Like a colour changing chameleon
I want to say that you're not a very good comedian.