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Monday morning writing joke: “Pocket change”

One day, a very old man walking in an enchanted forest comes across a talking frog.

“Hey, kind sir,” the frog says. “If you pick me up and kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”

The old man thinks about it for a minute, picks up the frog and puts it in his shirt pocket.

A little while later, the frog calls out, “Hey, mister, why don’t you kiss me. Don’t you want a beautiful princess to please you?”

“No,” the old man says. “At my age, I’d rather have a talking frog.”

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Monday morning writing joke: “Hitting the right note.”

Ernest Hemingway was sitting at a bar in Havana when in tottered an old, wizened man who hobbled up to the piano, sat down, and began playing.

He played wonderfully until he came to one certain note in the middle of the keyboard, which he could never get right. Always the same note. Always played badly.

“What’s his problem?” Hemingway asked.

The bartender shrugged. “We tried running him off, but he keeps coming back. So, we got him a music teacher. He ran her off. We then tried a psychologist. He didn’t last long, but he did suggest we not treat this problem as a big issue and maybe, eventually the man will go away. So he comes in to play and we ignore him and if anybody asks, we shrug our shoulders and say, ‘It’s just the old man and the C.’”

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Workshop weekend: haiku: “the old man”

The sun peers over
my shoulder, an old man who
gives heat as advice.

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