{"id":35102,"date":"2017-08-05T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35102"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:24:32","slug":"in-on-the-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/in-on-the-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"in on the joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n

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\nThe question turned to a joke when no one got the punchline…<\/p>\n

and explaining where it came from isn’t worth it anymore…<\/p>\n

The conversation moves from her best friend’s root canal to the gentrification of the city<\/p>\n

and on to the”new phenomena” of women searching for a meal in garbage cans.<\/p>\n

As if this wasn’t something we’ve all seen, some of us felt.<\/p>\n

From there to the empty concentration camps lining Amerika in wait.<\/p>\n

The atrocity of our newsreels takes its journey around the table but there is one topic we may not discuss!<\/p>\n

its a party you see..<\/p>\n

As if the mood’s not offered the topic<\/p>\n

touching on a subject the birthday girl can’t hear they distract themselves with some other pain<\/p>\n

being the youthful one around the table surrounded by my elder generation, I reach for the blessing of a beautiful memory or perhaps a solution they may have forgotten to inploemnet along the way<\/p>\n

mining for the wisdom amongst the sorrow and mortality<\/p>\n

I pray for a moment of tittilation in each of their days and leaning toward the trickster in the group<\/p>\n

I giggle at the third time that only we have gotten the punchline to our joke<\/p>\n

intergenerational sharing goes both ways.<\/p>\n

Let me in on the secret to your punchline and I’ll share mine with you.<\/p>\n

i swear it was funny the last time I told it.<\/p>\n

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