Craft: Humor

Tate, Weismiller, Knox, Gudding, Goodman

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Poems are not jokes, and poets are not comedians. Many people would like to make funny poems because a laugh is involuntary proof that a joke works. Poems get no such response. The obligatory “ahh” noise that people m…