Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

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What did one monocle say to the other monocle? Let's get together and make a spectacle of ourselves. My wife left a note on the fridge that said, “This isn't working.” I’m not sure what she’s talking about. I opened the fridge door and it’s working fine! When I see the names of lovers engraved on a tree, I don’t find it cute or romantic. I find it weird how many people take knives with them on dates. The writing style of the author was lucid & harsh. Something which is necessary whilst talking about grief. Their poems had a sense of familiarity, since we have all experienced grief of losing our loved ones, at least once in our lives. Their words are highly moving and once the readers starts reading, it would be very difficult to put down the book. It has been said that laughter is the best medicine. If that’s true, then dead dad jokes must be the panacea. After all, what could be more therapeutic than laughing at something so dark and morbid?

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I didn't want to believe that my dad was stealing from his job as a traffic cop, but when I got home, all the signs were there. Notes I made of things I really loved (and this may kind of be a case of "highlight what's important", and you highlight damn near the whole book):Why did they put a fence around the cemetery? People are dying to get in. You Had To Know That One Would Show Up Here What makes a joke a dad joke? Well, when a dad becomes a dad, his sense of humor becomes ap parent too. Before he knows it, he’s dropping pun-laden one-liners left and right just like his dad did, and his dad’s dad did, and he may even inherit some mom jokes too. (Is your grandmother funny? That’s usually the biggest tell.) Ever since day one, Ollie has been a comfort for me, the way they string words into sentences carrying emotions and trauma they have lived which resonates in so many ways with experiences i have lived. Dead dad jokes was no exception, it is helping me deal with the grief of a loved one who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. It's making me feel seen and understood and for me personally, that is greatest thing a book can bring you. What did the mother say to the father when he freaked out over their daughter’s college tuition? “I bet you wish you didn’t beg me to keep it now, don’t you?”

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According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” While corpses don’t actually need money, if they did, they’d pay in cryptocurrency. The pun here relies on the word “crypt” which is a place where people are buried. It’s conveniently also the beginning of the word for Bitcoin and other types of digital currency. 19. What did the ghoul say when he walked into the funeral home? Is your corpse tender here? While this might be a bit cheesy (what pun isn’t, really?), it’s true that you can’t spell “funeral” without “fun.” 3. She always was known for her killer puns.

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As a performance poet, Schminkey’s style has a strong sense of narrative and momentum, making their work very approachable. Though the razor-sharp focus on a single theme makes the collection feel cohesive, it also makes it harder for individual pieces to stand out, the relentlessly heavy subject matter a possible deterrent for some. A few pieces briefly touched on their experience with gender and identity as a trans, non-binary person, and the joy that came with acceptance of their queerness. A greater focus on this angle would have allowed for some tonal light and shade. In all, Shminkey is a poet I’m glad to have discovered.

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In Dead Dad Jokes, Ollie Schminkey recounts their experiences as a caretaker with both tenderness and an arresting honesty, and in doing so, continues to care for us. I am immensely grateful for this collection, for its honoring of the messiness of grief and its celebration for all that survives it. Dead Dad Jokes is a gift born of bereavement and still, beautifully, full of life. A husband and wife go to SUBWAY and agree to split a footlong sub. The wife gets the sub and gives a quarter of it to her husband. “Three inches? That’s not enough to fill me up!” said the husband. The wife smiled. “Now you know how I feel!” This collection focusses almost entirely on the tragic loss of the poet’s father. Schminkey lays bare the visceral indignity of a slow, painful death. Having always had a complicated relationship with their father (an alcoholic with a violent streak), the poems do an excellent job of exploring the fraught middle-ground between grief and resentment, posing interestingly nuanced questions: Are sympathy and care familial rights, or should they have to be earned? Does death absolve someone of their mistakes? Is it wrong to feel relieved when someone finally lets go? Lenny went on vacation and asked Bobby to watch over his house. About a week later, Lenny calls home and asked Bobby, “How’s my cat?” A kid decided to burn his house down. His dad watched, tears in his eyes. He put his arm around the mom and said, “That’s arson.”

Following on from this, as the author is non-binary and transgender, the experience of “killing” their past, with the use of terms like “dead name” is another avenue the poet explored into the theme of death. In dealing with someone who was terminally ill, the identity of the author in effect become suppressed because of the needs of the dying dad. The experiences they talk about in regards to having to care for their father, and losing pieces of themselves and not being to implement activities that the author wanted to do was extremely moving and heart-breaking to read. The raw and tangible feelings expressed in the poems is something I haven’t in any poetry collection and was beyond impressed. Do you want to know what I think? No dead dad, no opinion. I do NOT care if the topic of death makes you feel awkward. Why should I care? Especially when I have to hear things like, “Having a father-daughter dance is so awkward, I wish I didn’t have to do it,” or “I hate when my dad calls me when he knows I’m busy,” or, my personal favorite, “I wish my dad wouldn’t tell the same stories over and over again.” My wife and I were out to dinner and the waitress started flirting with me. "She obviously has COVID," my wife said. "Why?" I asked. "Because she has no taste."