The Joke (Poetry Marathon 2022 – Hour 11)
The other day you told me something
Funny you read on facebook
I reacted by clicking the wow Icon
As I almost fell off my chair.
I’ve never been good remembering jokes,
Sometimes I remember the punchline
Sometimes I remember everything but the punchline
But thank you for sharing the essence of what
We all need to shake us out of the doldrums
After 2 years of hibernation.
I am scratching my head now
Wondering what made me break up
With tears in my eyes
Causing an earthquake in my chair.
I know you don’t remember either
Jokes being as ephemeral as nitrous oxide
Just hiding within the ether.
Just for the fun of it
I try to find it on facebook
But maybe it was instagram or twitter.
Let us just enjoy the few seconds of mindlessness.
I so resonate with that sense of trying to remember something; and even more, appreciate your final line not of resignation but of presence. So Zen!!!
Thank you
Thank you. My father would often say he understood everything but the punchline.
Beautiful piece, Dave. You have a way with words. The moment, those “few seconds of mindlessness”, is more important than anything else. Let’s just enjoy it. What we remember or not doesn’t matter.