A Poem: “National Survey”

 

Reader’s Digest insists the most hated phrase in Canada is,

“Your call is important to us.”

 

“I’ve been meaning to tell you,”

seconded by a case of the hang-ups.

 

The opposite of the Internet

is a secret.

 

The world’s smallest deer,

the adorablest.

 

(Editor’s note: poet Jeff Blackman is a federal employee)

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