15 Perfectly Good Reasons You Had For “Poking The Bear”

Rochelle E. Fisher
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readApr 3, 2022

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Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Ukraine’s openness over the past few years to form alliances with the West amounted to agitating Russia, or “poking the bear,” as she called it. — Forbes, March 22, 2022

You poked him because:

  1. He was eating peanut butter in a nut-free zone.

2. You found him in your Airbnb.

3. He didn’t budge when you asked him to move.

4. He drank too much and passed out.

5. He poked you first.

6. You weren’t sure if he was a real bear or just a guy in a bear costume.

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Rochelle E. Fisher
Slackjaw

Top writer in Satire & Parenting, Rochelle's words can be found in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist, Frazzled, and others.