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Saturday, January 17, 2026

VENEZUELAN PEACE PRIZE GIVEAWAY LIMERICK

by Paul A. Freeman


The not-so-Nobel Peace prize. Cartoon by Marian Kamensky. Cartoon Movement at Instagram.


A second-hand peace prize! My word!

In hopes that St. Donald is spurred

to help out Machado,

yet ’neath her bravado

she’s trying to polish a turd.

Paul A. Freeman teaches English. He is the author of The Movement, a dystopia-Americana novel set in a future United States. It is available from Amazon as an ebook download and as a paperback. His first book, Rumours of Ophir, a crime novel taught at ‘O’ level in Zimbabwean high schools, was also translated into German. In addition to having two novels, a children’s book and an 18,000-word narrative poem (Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers!)commercially published, Paul Freeman is the author of numerous published short stories, poems, plays and articles. He works and resides in Mauritania, Africa.