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Monday, November 23, 2020

GOVERNMENT DIS-SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

by Margaret Rozga
Cartoon by Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020.


There once was a sycophant named Murphy
who claimed more than was her turf-y.
She refused to sign that the winner had won
and let the loser know his term was near done,
forsaking duty to go topsy turvy


Margaret Rozga’s latest work was to co-edit a newly released poetry anthology, Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems.