*** Let’s take a short break from politics and technology, shall we?
Life’s A Joke
by: RJ Marmol
If it’s anything amusing, I would laugh as anyone would
Roll on the floor, heck, laugh my guts out if I could!
Be it fine, about wine
Be it yours, be it mine
We laugh at the fellow who can’t read the sign
A riddle, a rhyme, a look or a style
A stutter, an accent, a behavior — let it not beguile
There’s more to raw humor if you walked it a mile
A prose poem like this or an essay like that
We laugh at the ugly, we ridicule the fat
The poor man rain-drenched on a mat,
The pretentious idiot in his shiny, new flat
Such a sport, such a vice
A hypocrite afloat his fancy boat lies
Warm and happy under rented blue skies
Oblivious of the storm brewing in his eyes
Delusions of grandeur
Comparisons of the spectacular
The last days are near
To decimate the insincere
Because a joke is a joke, even if it’s on me
And a lie is a lie, though untold you see
How funny, how amusing, such a luxury maybe
To laugh at yourself — an ingrate on his knee.
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