A salesman friend of mine once told me that the quickest way to break the ice with a difficult client - and the most facile method of surmounting difficult situations when they arrise - is to tell a joke. There is something deep in the human psyche that is not only soothed and mollified by humor, but that actively seeks it out like an addictive drug. Human beings, in my experience, also display an instinctive affinity for poetry as the penultimate of verbal expression. Parallel Humorverses is intended to satisfy both of these human proclivities by presenting jokes set to verse. Over 170 verses offer everything from the raunchy to the innocuous, with a healthy sprinkling of the risque and the suggestive in between. You Are guaranteed to enjoy this romp through some of the funniest poems ever written, and as a bonus, the enterprising joke meister can glean a wealth of bon mots to add to his own repertoire.