DO YOU REMEMBER THIS GOOD AS GOLD OLD JOKE?

GERARD SARNAT

The Jewish immigrant from Russia – he was much like Grandpa -- went to court to have his name changed. 

The judge said to him, “You have just had your name changed from Yankel Goldberg to Jimmy Gold.”

The man replied, “I want my name changed to John Brown.” 

The judge asked, “Why?”

The man then replied, “When people ask me what my name was before, I can say it was Jimmy Gold.”

Gerard Sarnat won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, and has been nominated for a handful of recent Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is published in Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, MiPOesias, American Journal Of Poetry, Clementine, pamplemousse, Deluge, Poetry Quarterly, Hypnopomp, Free State Review, Poetry Circle, Poets And War, Wordpeace, Cliterature, Qommunicate, Indolent Books, Pandemonium Press, Texas Review, San Antonio Review, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, The Los Angeles Review and The New York Times. He’s authored the collections Homeless Chronicles (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), Melting the Ice King (2016).