I Find A Chunk of Bone The Width of My Index Finger" (love this whole poem. My favorite part, though, is:

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That’s when something changed within me. I started to talk about my dad. Even more so, I got to a point in my grief where I felt comfortable enough to use humor to cope with it. I started to make dead dad jokes. Often people hear that and there is an immediate discomfort. Why would I do that? Why would I make people uncomfortable with such morbid actions? 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. My father was from Aberdeen and a more generous man you couldn’t wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post-dated, of course.” A man walks into a magic forest and tries to cut down a talking tree. “You can't cut me down,” the tree complains. “I’m a talking tree!” The man responds, “You may be a talking tree, but you will dialogue.” The joke here is that funeral directors are the ones to coordinate the burial. Thus, they’re both reliable and are the last to “let us down” into the ground. 7. What do you call a funeral ship? A sea hearse.What did one monocle say to the other monocle? Let's get together and make a spectacle of ourselves.

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My wife asked me to choke her the next time we’re in bed. I grabbed her by the throat and said, “Why wait?”

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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?

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What’s your name, son?” The principal asked his student. The kid replied, “D-d-d-dav-dav-david, sir.” “Do you have a stutter?” the principal asked. The student answered, “No sir, my dad has a stutter but the guy who registered my name was a real jerk.” Here, the pun is on the word lift, which means both elevator and an increase in happy feelings. Since a ghost is a spirit, this pun works on a number of levels. 12. Did you hear the news about the graveyard? There are people dying to get in there. The style is definitely unconventional and doesn't read like any of the other poem collections I have read. I can always tell when my wife is lying just by looking at her. I can also tell when she’s standing. My favourites include Yet Another Poem About Roadkill and I Write My Dead Name in My Father’s Obituary which I think beautifully encapsulates both loss but also identity expression and dealing with two important topics at the same time in one’s life.I did love reading the poems out loud as I'm a huge fan of spoken word because of the sound work and hearing the lines in the air. But at times, these stories felt more like venting then storytelling. The poems kept repeating moments that it made it less impact. I think this book would have benefited from some cuts so that it focused on the beautiful yet sad stories it had to tell. An old classic, this joke plays on the “a [insert noun here] walks into a bar…” set up. In this case, it’s a dead ghoul who is looking for the “corpse tender” instead of the bartender. 20. What’s the difference between a corpse and a shirt? One’s a casualty and the other is a casual tee. Why is it wrong to drive around in a van offering children candy? Because you’ll have more success if you give out video games. Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?”

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These types of jokes are usually about sensitive subjects like death, disease, and other uncomfortable topics. However, they can also be about more light-hearted subjects like childbirth and growing old. 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.) Congratulations if you’ve made it this far! I know it seems morbid, but death is inevitable. Death is going to happen. Dreading and fearing it will only make the few years we have less enjoyable. What’s the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? One is very heavy, the other is a little lighter.There were times when I felt so emotional that I just HAD to stop for a moment before moving on to the next poem because my heart hurt. All their poems are built around the same theme - grief & yet they are so different from one another.