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New Rules

The bus driver on that lousy 319

bus from Toms River to NYC

yelled at me.

He forbid me to use my cell phone.

That squinky son of a public

servant, the good soldier Schweik

of NJT Bus Line 319—grrr!

There were no signs on the bus

forbidding phone usage.

I know, they frown on it.

But that pompous bureaucrat

on wheels was using his new

mandate for sure, keeping

talky female passengers in

thrall. See, that’s how

the repeal of Roe v Wade sits

on the faces of all women, no

matter how young or old.

Joanie HF Zosike

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