Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Punchline

You took the idea
of heaven and hell
as seriously as
you took life,

which is to say
not at all.

You always said
that life
was a joke,

that there 
was no meaning
to it, only
a punchline

which everyone
is told
at the moment
of death,

and I believe you
on spring evenings
like this.

I feel your presence
when I laugh in time
with the croaking toad
outside my window. - Jeff Barnes

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