Friday, February 22, 2019

Pre-Occupied With This Woman All Night And Very Hungover The Next Morning BUT At No Time Did Mrs. CarPeo Get Jealous

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Also, Mrs. CarPeo
was alongside me when
I stood three feet away from this woman
—mesmerized—
but said not a word
because fifty people were standing
in line halfway across the room
waiting to do the same thing

In truth,
Mrs. Carpeo
was equally hungover
the next morning despite the fact
that neither of us drank
any alcohol the night before

We were both hungover
with delight from laughing
so much at someone
whose purpose in life
is to make people laugh

That hangover might very well
have been shared by
the one thousand other people
in the audience for

You could have asked twenty of them
what was their favorite line
from Paula was
and you would get
twenty different answers
and they'd all be correct

But,
on January 19, 2019
at the Carpenter Center,
our favorite Poundstone joke was

I have difficulty with short term memory
but I don't think of it as a problem,
I think of it as a presidential quality

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