Laughed My Way Through Traffic… Poem by Margaret Alice

As we got stuck in traffic Nici presented Achmed
the terrorizing terrorist, I laughed my way through
traffic moving at snails’ pace; marvelous technology
that allows us to watch funny shows on cellphones
while moving through traffic stuck in roadworks…

Just as I reread, laughing all the way, the funny scenes
where Agnes Nitt, the big witch-to-be from Lancre, deals
with Christine, the little would-be-soprano of Ankh-Mor-
pork Opera House in Maskerade*; Christine has to sing
Iodine in La Triviata; Agnes does the singing

While beautiful, but dumb Christine presents her super-
thin body, crowned with her empty head, half-crazed
through starvation; for the crowd’s adulation…

* Terry Pratchett “Maskerade”