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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

AN ALL-AMERICAN INCENTIVE

by Clyde Always




At last the rates of jabs are up
in states where were the leasest
which are, coincidentally,
the ones that rank obesest.
 
Miraculous. Perplexing though…
what reason for could this be?
It seems they upped the bribe a bit:
two kremes and both are krispy.


Clyde Always is an accomplished cartoonist, poet, painter, novelist and Vaudevillian entertainer. His writings and/or illustrations have been printed in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Light, Slackjaw, Scarfff Comics, etc. etc. You can see his storytelling act, live and in-person, any Friday evening, at the Scott Street Labyrinth in San Francisco, CA.