Woman in class yesterday said her father
was a dentist and to put patients at ease
he told jokes. He wrote them down on index cards
and after he died her brother kept the cards in a shoe box.
My father who had a Rabbinic demeanor,
he looked like an unlikely joke teller, he told jokes too.
Lately I’ve started to write his jokes down. Here’s one
I told yesterday that a woman in class named Nicki
explained wasn’t funny at all. (My father would have laughed at that).
Mr. Steinberg had barley soup every day. The waiter
brought him the soup when he came into the restaurant.
One day Mr. Steinberg said to the waiter Taste the Soup.
I’ll bring you another bowl said the waiter. No No Taste
the Soup said Mr Steinberg. All right all right said the waiter.
Where’s the spoon? AHA said Mr. Steinberg.
What I love about this joke, is that I first heard it in "Coming to America"