Michael Ceraolo is a 64-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) and has two more full-length books, Euclid Creek Book Two, and Lawyers, Guns, and Money, in the publication pipeline.
Letter to an Insurance Broker
Man walks up to Postal Clerk to mail a certified letter a few days before Christmas.
Postal Clerk: Do you need stamps, or anything else?
Man: Not today, thanks.
Postal Clerk: Is anything in here liquid, perishable, hazardous, etc.?
Man: The letter could be harmful to someone's ego.
Postal Clerk: Thanks. I needed a good laugh at this time of year.
THE END
The History Game Show (Episode 3)
And tonight's show is
FEAR FACTOR
with host Russell Alger
and co-host Charles Eagan
Tonight's challenge:
Will the soldiers in Cuba
eat the beef procured for them
from American companies?
(disparagingly referred to as "embalmed beef")
(Stock footage of soldiers eating.)
Thousands of soldiers have accepted the challenge, and their prize for doing so: far more will die from food poisoning and disease exacerbated by food poisoning, than will die in combat.
THE END
