A Clown Without a Class
In school they put me
in the gifted class
but as one of my favorite
teachers finally put it
“There’s just something missing”
and no one could
fill in the blank
Except I was good enough at Mad Libs–
dare I say, gifted enough–
to eventually realize I wasn’t gifted
I was gag gifted
Once I admitted this
two things happened at once:
the gag came off
and I was in on my own gag
even if nobody else was
