"Hazel Tells LaVerne"

"an how i can be a princess

me a princess" (12-13)

The entire time I read "Hazel Tells LaVerne" by Katharyn Howd Machan, I was wondering why she is the only poet who thought to have a sense of humor in her writing.  For one, the setting does not include some depressing nature image, but rather a bathroom at her job.  Next, there is a frog trying to climb up a toilet seat. Lastly, the lady does not speak proper English, which is always funny.  The tone of the poem is kind of sarcastic and doubtful.  Not only does the speaker get asked to kiss a frog, but she turns it down.  Oh, and not to mention the fact that the frog in a toilet starts to talk?  Talk about situational irony.  Now for the punctuation... lack of punctuation that is.  I really have no clue behind the reasoning in this poem other than that it kind of contributes to the humor and sarcastic nature of the poem.  It almost could be seen as satirizing the working class and how they tend to lack the required work ethic to speak properly.