Sarah Silverman
thinks
we can laugh about everything,
but had she witnessed
the Canadian Government
refusing to answer a question
in the House of Commons
she wouldn’t have considered it funny,
and had she heard the Speaker
saying Question Period
isn’t Answer Period
– letting elected officials
reiterate the irrelevant –
she would have thought
it was even less amusing;
that’s why
Paul Calandra
and Andrew Scheer
can’t be found
in any of Sarah’s jokes,
in case you were
wondering.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
