Joke Hold by Gregg Shapiro

The sky walks into a bar.

The sky?

What sky?

The sky walks into a bar?

No, this guy. T-h-i-s space g-u-y.

This space guy walks into a bar?

No, this guy walks into a bar.

This guy better be funny.

The guy doesn’t need to be funny. The joke is funny.

That all depends, doesn’t it?

Depends on what?

On who’s telling the joke.

Or who’s listening.

Gregg Shapiro is the author of seven books including the 2019 chapbooks, Sunshine State (NightBallet Press) and More Poems About Buildings and Food (Souvenir Spoon Books). An entertainment journalist, whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites, Shapiro lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.