Tragedy in Comedy
Date
2022-08
Authors
Wang, Jennifer
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Abstract
This poem was a response to Gilbert Gottfried's death. Many friends posted homages, but all I could remember was his awful jokes about the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which took the life of someone I personally knew. This poem is a reminder that you don't have to canonize people who have died.
General Notes
This work received a Second Place Award in the "Open Verse Poetry" category from all literary works submitted in the 2022 On My Own Time show.