by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
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| A book-keeper whose boss repeatedly shouted the word "potato" at her "in a strong Irish accent" has been awarded more than £23,000 by an employment tribunal after it found she had been racially harassed. —BBC, March 11,2026 |
Potato is
The racial slur
An Irish Ms
Got hurled at her
Repeatedly:
Her spud-brained boss
Turned out to be
An albatross.
But Bernadette,
Though sore abashed,
Refused to let
Her worth get mashed
And went to court.
Now judgment's sealed.
Long story short:
His spud got peeled!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, The New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly, and several other journals. In 2025 he won the Children's Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud.
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