I slept with a Marxist once.

Okay, here’s my attempt at a "Joke Poo" based on your original:

Joke Poo: I Cooked for a Food Critic Once

In the morning, he woke and left a detailed two-page review… on my fridge.

Alright, let’s dissect this joke!

Elements of the Original Joke:

• Setup: "I slept with a Marxist once." – This immediately establishes a potentially provocative and intellectual scenario. It hints at romance and political ideology clashing.
• Punchline: "In the morning she woke and left." – This is anti-climactic. The expectation is for a profound political discussion, an ideological battle, or something significant to happen related to their shared ideology. Instead, it’s utterly mundane.
• Humor derives from: The juxtaposition of the high-brow setup (Marxism, implies political or intellectual engagement) with the low-brow, utterly commonplace outcome (waking up and leaving). It’s funny because of the letdown, the deflation of expectations. The joke leverages our pre-conceived notions about "sleeping with" someone, and being a Marxist, and then delivers the most boring possible conclusion.

Now, let’s enrich it with facts and create some humorous additions:

Option 1: Expanding on the Marxism angle with a Did You Know?

"I slept with a Marxist once. In the morning she woke and left. Did you know that Karl Marx himself was notoriously bad at holding down a job and relied heavily on his friend Friedrich Engels for financial support? Maybe she woke up and realized I was a potential Engels stand-in and noped right out of there."

• Why it’s funny: This "did you know" adds another layer of deflation, pointing out Marx’s own practical shortcomings despite his grand theories. It suggests the woman might have been assessing the speaker’s economic viability through a Marxist lens, and found them lacking.

Option 2: A related joke riffing on Marxist philosophy and the morning-after:

"I slept with a Marxist once. In the morning she woke and left, muttering something about ‘the alienation of labor’ and ‘the inherent contradictions of capitalist coffee production.’ Apparently, my Keurig isn’t dialectical enough."

• Why it’s funny: This plays on Marxist concepts (alienation of labor, dialectical materialism) and applies them to the trivial situation of morning coffee. It takes the intellectual jargon and throws it into an absurdly commonplace setting.

Option 3: A Metajoke analyzing the joke:

"I slept with a Marxist once. In the morning she woke and left. Honestly, the best part about that joke is how it subverts expectations. It’s a real post-Marxist punchline, in that it deconstructs the grand narratives surrounding political ideologies and reduces them to the banality of human interaction. Or, you know, maybe she just had a train to catch."

• Why it’s funny: This is self-aware and slightly pretentious. It satirizes the tendency to over-analyze simple things, while still acknowledging the possibility of a perfectly mundane reason for the departure. The "train to catch" ending provides a final deflation, contrasting with the earlier philosophical "analysis" of the joke.

Option 4: Adding a politically driven punchline
"I slept with a Marxist once. In the morning she woke and left, because she finally realized I was an undisclosed member of the capitalist class."

• Why it’s funny: This adds irony. It plays on the idea that you can’t truly know someone’s political identity when you first meet them. It’s another humorous, yet simple subversion of expectations.

I believe these additions build upon the original joke’s humor by introducing factual or thematic elements related to Marxism, while maintaining the core element of surprising deflation. They also offer different styles of humor, from the historical to the self-aware to the absurd.